Need to find the BEST pumpkin pie recipe ever!

2 cups fresh pumpkin puree (buy small fresh pumpkins, quarter them and slow cook at 250 degrees for 2-3 of hours so they get soft, and lose their moisture. Scrape the flesh out and puree. Feel free to do this a day before)
1 cup brown sugar
1 vanilla bean, scraped, seeds only
1 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ea. cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves
pinch salt
pinch white pepper
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups 35% cream
1/4 cup bourbon

Whisk all filling ingredients together. Pour into prebaked tart shell or pie shell and bake at 375 until done, 40-60 minutes, depending on oven.

My preference is for pumpkin tart, using a pate sucree:

1 scraped vanilla pod (optional)
4 tbsp. soft butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
2 egg yolks
1 cup + 2 tbsp. flour
pinch salt

Process butter with vanilla seeds until very light. Add sugar and process. Add yolks and process. Add 1 cup flour and salt and quickly process. Add remaining flour and process if very sticky. Dough will not form a ball. Wrap and refrigerate dough for at least 4 hours before rolling.

I like to do this in a fluted tart pan. Once the tart is baked with its filling and cooled, you can make a meringue, gently scoop it on top, and brown it quickly in a hot oven, like a lemon-meringue pie.

What do you have against boiled squash?

I am actually good at making pie... I gave my crust recipe to Squinney in her thread about how to make pie crust... I will have to think about how I make pumpkin pies... I sort of follow the Carnation canned milk recipe, but with a few modifications... I like more spice and less sugar generally... often make it more custardy but with pumpkin in than pure pumpkin puree... I also tend to make things without a recipe, so they often don't turn out the same twice... But with good crust, tasty filling and whipping cream or cool whip for garnish, I've never had objections (except when I've burned them, which happens when I get distracted or multitask to far and wide...)

Thanks y'all...gonna pactice up

My wife and I both love pumpkin pie - my parents look at us like we're crazy when we eat them year round instead of just around Thanksgiving.

Libby's makes a can of "Pumpkin Pie Mix" that has nearly everything in it. If I remember right, you have to add two eggs and a can of condensed milk. Mix it up, pour it into a crust, and put it in the oven. It actually makes a very good pie. (We normally let it bake about 15 minutes longer than the instructions on the can).

Libby's is what I use to cheat...it's a pretty good product.

I don't like the taste of pumpkin pie mix cans as much as using fresh spice with pumpkin.

This is my basic recipe, but I change things depending upon what I have in my cubboard.

3/4 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnemon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. allspice
3 eggs, beaten with 1 & 2/3 c. milk + 1 & 1/2 c. cooked pumpkin
Mix and combine together. Mix well.

2 9 inch deep dish pie crusts. Pour mixture into unbaked pie shells & bake in a hot oven, 425* for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350* and continue to bake about 50 minutes.

I made one once and somehow forgot the sugar. Talk about boiled squash.

Anyway, my grandma was quite possibly the best pie maker that ever lived. She got quite fat perfecting her art, finally she had to stop eating her own product. I remember a peach pie she made that was literally a trancendental experience to eat. To get to the point, she insisted that canned pumpkin was just as good as fresh and there was no reason to bother with boiling or baking it yourself. I tend to agree, though you can certainly vary the flavor by using different types of squash and how much you carmelize the sugar if you bake it first.

Princess,
The only way to get me to eat vegetables is to make them into zucchini bread, carrot cake, or pumpkin pie!

This is my mothers recipe I hope you enjoy it :

1 large can ( 13 oz) pumpkin
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
3 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp salt
4 eggs beaten
2 cups evaporated milk

Set oven for 350' F
Combine first nine ingredients, mix well. Heat milk to a boiling point add, and mix well. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake 1 1/2 hours for a 10 inch pie. 1 hour for a 9 inch pie .. Pie is done when knife inserted nea the rim comes out clean ....



Hope you enjoy this pie as much as I do

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thanx and welcome

this is chinese pumpkin pie
it is very popular
but i hate it.

Roast that pumpkin. You won't be sorry. Cav, I like the bourbon addition. I always add bourbon to my whipped cream to top my pumpkin pie.