Recipe for the day ~ Pumpkin Maple Pie Supreme

Pumpkin Maple Pie Supreme

(Courtesy of All Recipes)

Ingredients:

1 small sugar pumpkin

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 1/4 tspns ground cinnamon

1 tspn ground ginger

1 tspn ground nutmeg

1/4 tspn ground cloves

1/8 tspn ground allspice

1/2 tspn salt

2/3 cup real maple syrup

1 1/4 cups half and half cream

1 tspn all-purpose flour

3 eggs

1 (9-inch) unbaked pie shell

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375

Cut up pumpkin and remove seeds

Place in a large baking pan

Cover with foil or lid

Bake for 1 hour or until very tender

Remove from oven 

Set aside to cool

Reduce oven to 350

Scrape pumpkin into a food processor

Puree until smooth

Measure 1 1/2 cups of pumpkin puree

In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt

Stir in maple syrup, half and half, and flour

Mix in eggs one at a time

Pour filling into unbaked pie shell

Bake for 1 hour or until center is set

**FOOTNOTES**

Freeze any remaining pumpkin puree in a small leak proof container

Fill within 1 inch from the top because the contents will expand when frozen