Squash or Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• Prepare and steam. Strain through a sieve.
• one quart of new milk
• a spoonful or two of cream
• one heaping cupful of sugar
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a heaping one of ginger
• half a one of cinnamon
• from two to four well beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix strained squash with milk, cream, sugar, salt, ginger, and cinnamon.

2. 2

   Add beaten eggs.

3. 3

   Bake in deep plates lined with plain pie-crust until a knife blade comes out clean, about forty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Squash or Pumpkin Pie. — Prepare and steam. Strain through a sieve. To a quart of the strained squash add one quart of new milk, with a spoonful or two of cream, if possible; one heaping cupful of sugar, into which has been stirred a teaspoonful of salt, a heaping one of ginger, and half a one of cinnamon. Mix this with the squash, and add from two to four well beaten eggs

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