From-Scratch Pumpkin Pie Recipe
After last week's pie crust, of course we were going to follow up with pumpkin pie! Nothing evokes the holiday season like the smell of pumpkin pie baking in the oven! When we can, we like to make it from scratch with fresh pumpkin, but you can use canned pumpkin puree if you can't get fresh. Please remember: Those big pumpkins that you carve for Hallowe'en are not really great for this. They don't have as much flavour, and the flesh isn't as nice to work with.
Again, you can customize with your favourite pumpkin pie spices. You can also adjust the amount of sugar in this recipe. When hubby adapted this recipe, he cut down the sugar quite a lot, and it could go down even more. We find that with too much sugar the texture isn't as nice, the whole thing gets weighed down by all that sugar.
