What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Many people wouldn’t want to miss the dressing, turkey, sweet potatoes, or green bean casserole. But for me, I always save room for grandma’s pumpkin pie.
It’s the one time of year I know I will have to save room for dessert. This is a challenge because of all the other great food choices as well. But I’m not a quitter, so I make sure to get myself a slice.
This week over on Instagram I have been showing photos of Thanksgiving tables and sharing recipes from my past in my stories.
Today I’m featuring my GRANDMA’S PUMPKIN PIE. I live in a big Mennonite/Amish community and my grandma was a Fantastic Mennonite Cook. She was a widow as long as I knew her and she and all her friends were the ones who brought fantastic pies to the potlucks and holiday meals. I will forever cherish those beautiful days when life seemed simpler and slower-paced. Sometimes when I smell a smell or taste food from the past it transports me back to a time and place that makes me feel nostalgic. I feel like my adult life has been one of often trying to recreate those feelings for my family and others I love.
This Thanksgiving If you are looking for a pumpkin pie recipe you should taste my grandma’s. If she were still here she would giggle and shyly smile as I sang her praises. She was a loving woman and her pie is one of my favorite ways to remember her.
If you love pumpkin pie you should try this creamy, not too pumpkiny, pumpkin pie.
Grandma Miller's Pumpkin Pie
A delicious, creamy pumpkin pie filling that will keep you coming back for more.
Ingredients
- 3 Cups Pumpkin
- 1 Cup White Sugar
- 2 Cups Brown Sugar
- 4 Cups Milk
- 8 Eggs/Divided
- pinch of Salt
- 2 Heaping TBSP Flour
- 1 Tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 2 Tsp Cinnamon
Instructions
- Beat Egg Yolks, add sugars, flour, milk, pumpkin, and spices
- Beat Egg whites
- Gently fold egg whites into the rest of the pumpkin mixture
- Bake at 450 for 15 minutes
- Bake at 325 for 15 minutes longer, or until set in the middle.
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