Lacey’s Pantry – Pumpkin Pie

(Photo by Lacey Newlin)

By Lacey Newlin

Yields: 1 Pie
Total Time: 2.5 Hours

For Pumpkin Puree:
Ingredients: 1 Pie Pumpkin

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Cut the pumpkin in half. Scoop the guts and seeds out. Disregard the guts, save the seeds to make roasted pumpkin seeds later on if you like. Put pumpkin face down in pan. Full pan with 1/4 inch of water. Bake for 1 hour. Let cool. Cut the skin away from pumpkin, it should almost pull right off. Disregard skin. Cut pumpkin into chunks and put in food processor or blender. Blend to the consistency of baby food. You can use it immediately or freeze for other purposes.

For Pumpkin Pie:
Ingredients:
2 cups Fresh Pumpkin Puree
1 (12 Oz.) Can of Evaporated Milk
3 Eggs
3/4 cups sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
1 deep dish pie shell

Combine sugar, sale, spices and eggs in a large bowl. Add puree and milk then combine thoroughly. Pour into pie shell. Place foil around the edges of the crust. Place pie on foil-lined cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes. When the time is up insert a knife into the pie to see if it comes out clean, that means it is done. Keep baking if the knife doesn’t come out clean.