Grandma's Surprise Pumpkin Pie Recipe
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Ingredients: 3 ½ c mashed pumpkin canned or fresh
1 ½ c brown sugar firmly packed
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
½ tsp allspice
6 eggs
3 c rich milk or canned milk
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Directions:Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Beat until blended. Pour into unbaked pie shells. Bake at 425Fº for 15 min. then 350Fº for 45-55 min. or until silver knife comes out clean. It makes about 3 9” pies. Serve with whipped cream
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Notes: This was mom’s favorite pie recipe and she made it every fall and if we didn’t come to eat it she would bring it to Lethbridge where Barbara and I lived so that we could eat it as 3 were too many for them.
One sunny fall day the Dye’s were at the farm and there was a dead skunk in the yard that had just freshly died. Lary decided to skin it and make a hat out of the skin. When he was through skinning it he asked Reed with his BB gun and Shane the on lookers to take the carcass out to the toolies and get rid of it. Very obligingly they obeyed the request. Being boys and the age that they were they couldn’t just take the carcass and get rid of it, they had to have some fun first before they left it. The fun was shooting it full of BB’s and hitting the scent glands. They must of realized that maybe they didn’t smell so good when they came back as they put Reeds BB gun in Grandma’s brand new Chrysler car that was parked in the sun on the south side of the house. They laid their jackets on the wash machine in the entrance of the house and proceeded in.
As you all know you can’t hide skunk smell and the boys weren’t too welcome in the house. Only this isn’t the worst of the story. Reed forgot his gun and Grandma baked pumpkin pies the next morning and naturally decided to bring some to us in Lethbridge. When she opened her car door to put them in she almost fell over from the smell and there was Reeds gun.
Mom left the car windows open for a couple of hours to air the car out and after smelling the car every 15 min to see if the smell was gone I think that she finally got used to the smell as she thought that the smell was gone and put the pies in and took off to Lethbridge. When she arrived she never smelt too good and we couldn’t imagine what happened and we about died laughing at her story until we tasted the pies. Well let me tell you skunk pies are not very palatable, our laugh was gone for awhile and the pies went too but not to return. Grandma was not too happy about the wasted food and energy but it has been a family joke ever since.
Another time I was making some pumpkin pies and took what I thought was pumpkin out of the freezer. It sure seemed like watery pumpkin but I only put pumpkin in those containers as they were the exact size, so I used it thinking it was pumpkin. Later Cindy came asking me if I had seen her baby food. She had puréed some peaches and put it into one of those containers. Well her baby food was gone and everyone ate peach pie that day thinking that it was pumpkin pie. There were no complaints so I guess that you don’t need pumpkin to make pumpkin pie. That is where the surprise comes from, what will be next?
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