This homemade pumpkin pie made with mashed, cooked pumpkin is my family's favorite. Skip the canned pumpkin and store-bought crust and make your holiday pumpkin pie from scratch with a flaky homemade pastry crust and a deliciously spiced pumpkin filling. Hope you enjoy it as much as my family does!
Ingredients
- ⅓ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- shortening: 0.5 cup
- water: 3 Tbsp (or more if needed, cold)
- mashed, cooked pie pumpkin: 2 cups
- evaporated milk: 1 can (12 fluid ounce can)
- eggs: 2 piece (beaten)
- packed brown sugar: 0.75 cup
- ground cinnamon: 0.5 tsp (to taste)
- ground ginger: 0.5 tsp (to taste)
- ground nutmeg: 0.5 tsp (to taste)
- salt: 0.5 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
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Make the pastry crust: Mix flour and salt together in a bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix in 3 tablespoons water, one at a time, until dough is moist enough to hold together. Add up to 1 more tablespoon water if needed.
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Shape dough into a ball with lightly floured hands. Roll dough on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of 1/8 inch. Place a 9-inch pie pan upside-down on the dough; use a sharp knife to cut a circle of dough 1 1/2 inches larger than the pie pan. Remove and discard dough scraps and set pie pan aside.
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Gently roll circular piece of dough around the rolling pin; transfer it right-side up over the pie pan. Unroll, easing dough into the bottom of the pan. Use two hands to flute the dough around the top edges.
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Make the filling: Beat pumpkin, evaporated milk, brown sugar, eggs, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl with an electric mixer until well combined. Pour into the prepared crust.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the filling 1 inch from the edge comes out clean, 40 to 60 minutes. Cover the edges with foil if needed to prevent from burning as the filling cooks.
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Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature before serving. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios