Friend and former Post library worker Michele Smith is looking for an old recipe: Can you help?
I’m looking for some help here. Once upon a time I had my great-grandmother’s pumpkin pie recipe – it’s made like an apple pie with pumpkin chunks and two crusts.
Well, I can’t find it and my Alzheimer’s Mom can’t seem to find her copy either. I’m crushed. Finally found some pie pumpkins and now I can’t find the recipe.
Any ideas or suggestions? My mom thought just using the spices used in a normal pumpkin pie, but make it like an apple pie…
I’m not so sure about that. The spices can’t be the same between apple & pumpkin, can they?Any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you can help Michele, email me (Jan@JanNorris.com) and I’ll print the recipe for everyone!
(Editor’s update: The recipe is in one of the comments below.)
Related posts:
2 responses so far ↓
1 Jan Norris
// Sep 13, 2008 at 6:18 pm
OK, Michele: I found one on the chowhound board…see if this fits?
“I make an unusual pumpkin pie using fresh pumpkin. Here is the recipe:
CHUNKY PUMPKIN PIE
1 quart sliced pumpkin, as you would slice apples for apple pie (sugar pie pumpkin is the best)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup sugar
Pinch salt
4 TBS. water (I use 2 TBs or less depending on the pumpkin. Sugar pie pumpkins are very liquid.)
2 TBS. butter
2 drops vanilla extract
Make a double crust recipe of dough. Line a pie pan with bottom crust and dust with flour. Put pumpkin slices in the pie pan. Add all of the seasonings and the water. Sift a small amount of flour over pumpkin, dot with butter and top with crust. I end up using a 1/8 cup or so of flour, be generous.
Bake in 350° oven for 1 hour.”
2 mrssmith
// Sep 21, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Thanks Jan! I made the pie tonight, just letting it cool now. I’ll let you know if it is as good as I remember!
Leave a Comment