Pumpkin pie

Ingredients

  • Pie crust
    • 3 cups flour
    • 1 cup shortening
    • 1½ tsp salt
    • 1 TBSP sugar
    • ½ tsp baking powder
    • ½ cup water
  • 29 oz can pumpkin puree
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground cloves
  • 5 eggs
  • 2½ cups milk

Directions

  1. Make pie crust
  2. Preheat oven to 425°
  3. Mix sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves in a small bowl (cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves may be replaced by 3½ tsp pumpkin spice)
  4. In a large bowl beat eggs
  5. Stir pumpkin and sugar/spice mix into eggs
  6. Slowly stir in milk
  7. Pour into pie shell(s) – this makes 2 9″ pies
  8. Bake at 425° for 15 minutes
  9. Reduce heat to 350° and make an additional 45 minutes
  10. Let cool at least 30 minutes

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