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id 818
Name Best Pumpkin Pie Filling
Main Dish Category Dessert
Secondary Dish Category
Main Ingredient Pumpkin Puree
Other Ingredient Heavy Cream
Number of People 8
List of Ingredients 2 cups plain pumpkin puree (16 oz.), canned or fresh

1 cup packed dark brown sugar

2 tsp. ground ginger

1 tsp. fresh grated nutmeg

2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tps. table salt

2/3 cup heavy cream

2/3 cup milk

4 large eggs



For whipping cream

1 1/3 cups heavy cream (cold)

3 T. confectioners sugar

1 T brandy
Description Chilled shell should be baked at 400 degrees for 15 minutes with a foil covering (pricking holes through the foil) on lowest oven rack.  Then baked 8 to 10 minutes uncovered or until interior just begins to color.



In the meantime, process pumpkin, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt in a food processor for 1 minute.  Transfer pumpkin mixture to a 3-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan; bring it to a sputtering simmer over medium-high heat.  Cook pumpkin, stirring constantly, until thick and shiny, about 5 minutes.  As soon as pie shell comes out of the oven, whisk heavy cream and milk into pumpkin and bring to a bare simmer.  Process eggs in food processor until whites and yolks  are mixed, about 5 seconds.  With motor running, slowly pour about half of hot pumpkin mixture though feed tube.  Stop machine and scrape in remaining pumpkin.  Process 30 seconds longer.  



Immediately pour warm filling into hot pie shell.  (Ladle any excess filling into pie after it has baked for 5 minutes or so--by this time filling will have settled.)  Bake until filling is puffed, dry-looking, and lightly cracked aroung edges, and center wiggles like gelatin when pie is gendly shaked, about 25 minutes.  Cool on a wire rack for at least 1 hour. 



For whipped cream:  Beat cream at medium speed to soft peaks; gradually add confectioners' sugar then brandy.  Beat to stiff peaks.  Serve on cooled pie.
Time 20 minutes + baking
Cooking Type Bake
Difficulty (1-5) 3
Notes Notes
Origin Cook's Illustrated
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