Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• 1 quantity of pastry
• 600g butternut pumpkin, chopped.
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup single/pouring cream
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• freshly grated nutmeg for serving.

NB the flavour of the pumpkin is very important, so choose good (very orange-coloured) pumpkin.

Method

• Heat oven to 180 degrees.
• Steam choppped pumpkin until cooked. Puree in blender and leave to go cold.
• Add sugar, eggs, cream, and cinnamon. Blend again. (You are meant to whisk this, so the more frothy it gets, the better!)
• Place pastry in a flan dish.
• Put baking weights into pastry dish, and cook for 10 minutes. Remove the weights and cook for another 10 minutes.
• Turn oven down to 150 degrees, pour in pumpkin mixture and cook for about 50 minutes.
• Sprinkle with nutmeg to serve.

Source

Modern Classics (Book 2)