Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• one quart of pumpkin
• one quart of new milk
• four eggs
• a small piece of butter
• white sugar to taste
• cinnamon and nutmeg as desired
• a very little brandy

Method

1. 1

   Cut pumpkin into thin slices and boil until tender.

2. 2

   Drain off water, mash, and rub through a sieve, adding butter.

3. 3

   For each quart of pumpkin, add a quart of milk and four eggs, beaten separately, sugar, spices, and brandy.

4. 4

   Bake in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 292. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pumpkin Pie. — Cut the pumpkin into thin slices, and boil until tender in as little water as possible ; watch carefully that it does not scorch ; drain off all the water. Mash, and rub through a sieve, adding, while warm, a small piece of butter. To every quart of the pumpkin, after mashing, add one quart of new milk and four eggs, the yolks and whites beaten separately ; white sugar to taste, and cinnamon and nutmeg as desired ; a very little brandy is a great improvement. The oven in which they are baked must be hot. or they will not brown. It is as well to heat the batter scalding hot before pouring into the pie-dishes. Another way : —One quart of pump- k

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