Pumpkin Pie !

[Ali]

Well as you may recall I grew a number of HUGE pumpkins this year; they are storing well.

Apart from soups was looking today for another receipe.

Well I've never fancied Pumpkin Pie but ever the international cosmoplitain (well we do live in France don't we ) I have a pumkin pie on the go.

Here's a recipe I found without Evaporated milk (coz I don't have any in stock) oh and minus the sultanas coz didn't fancy that, have never made shortcrust pastry in this way either........ it could all go horribly wrong ;D ;D

Ingredients
Serves: 8

Shortcrust Pastry:
125g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
60g butter
water as needed

Filling:
500g mashed pumpkin
200g brown or white sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
500ml milk
80g sultanas

Preparation method
Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 45 mins | Extra time: 30 mins, chilling
1.
To make the pastry: In a food processor, pulse the flour, salt, baking powder and butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Continue to pulse with just enough water to get the dough to come together. Press into a flattened disc and wrap in cling film. Chill for 30 minutes.
2.
Roll the pastry out on a lightly floured surface and use to line a deep pie dish. Flute the edges with thumb and finger. Prick the base of the pastry case with a fork.
3.
To make the filling: Combine the pumpkin, sugar, eggs, spices, milk and sultanas together in a bowl. Pour into pastry case and bake in 220 C / Gas 6 oven for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 180 C / Gas 4 and continue to bake until a knife comes out clean when inserted into the centre.

[Elkay]

We're going to make Nigel Slater's butternut squash pie tonight - but with potimarron cos we haven't got any butternuts yet (been promised some by a neighbour, tho)

www.celebritykitchen.co.uk/nigel-slaters-butternut-squash-pie

It is a savory pie, so we're going to have swiss chard with it and I shall roast myself the HUGE parsnip I just pulled out (thought I was going to have to dismantle my raised bed to get it out!) but Mr Elkay won't be having any parsnip cos he cant stand 'em

[Elkay]

I have to say - it was absolutely delicious!

[Ali]

Mine didn't work It didn't like all being chucked in the blender

[Elkay]

That's a shame ali - try the savoury version! However, it needs to be a firm variety, like butternut squash, potimarron or muscat de provence......and if, like Honete, all you have is millions of kilos of ordinary ones (te he) you'll need to bake them for longer before putting them in the pie

[Em]

pumpkin pie yuck!!
pumpkin cake yummy try find a recipie on net my mother lost hers and I am allergic to them so...........

[Madame Moorhen]

Ali it will probably be your food processor that is the problem doing shortcrust that way - my old Magimix did it a treat but my rotten Moulinex does the rubbing in bit OK but if I add water it just can't process it all together into pastry properly and just makes an overworked mess under the blade and the smell of burning motor!

So I just do it by hand these days.

Bumping this to the top anyway so I'll add my recipes to this list including the pastryless one I mentioned to you (much easier!). When I have time. ;D