Homemade Pumpkin Pie Recipe: Step-by-Step Guide

INGREDIENTS

CRUST

  • 1 cup flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 tablespoon sugar
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1 egg
  • 1½ tablespoons water (ice-cold)
  • 1/4 tablespoon vinegar

FILLING

  • 1 small cooking pumpkin (4 to 6 inches)
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 smidgen fresh ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk

Directions

  1. For the crust:
    • Mix flour, salt, and sugar, then cut in shortening with fork or pastry cutter until crumbly.
    • Add egg, water, and vinegar.
    • Scrape out of bowl onto floured surface. Roll into ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate ½ to hour.
    • Roll dough out on a floured surface and place in pie pan.
  2. For the filling:
    • Cut pumpkin in half and scrape out seeds and string membranes of pumpkin.
    • Quarter pumpkin. In a double steamer, steam pumpkin until soft and skin peels off by touch (45 minutes to 1 hour).
    • Mash with potato masher, then squeeze water out of mashed pumpkin through cheesecloth.
    • Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees
    • Combine pumpkin, sugar, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, and vanilla, and mix well.
    • Add eggs and milk. Mix well.
    • Pour into unbaked pie crust. Bake for 15 minutes.
    • Reduce heat to 350°F and cover crust edge. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes.
    • Let cool 3 hours before serving. Refrigerate.

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