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Here is the Recipe
1 round unbaked 9-inch deep dish pie pastry (9-10-inch)
2 cups freshly cooked pumpkin, seeded, peeled, mashed
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
3 large eggs, beaten lightly
1 (12 ounce) can evaporated skim milk
1/2 cup skim milk
(To make your own freshly cooked pumpkin, quarter 1-2 small pie pumpkins, de-stem, seed and de-string them. Then steam them in a steamer over boiling water until very tender--the skin will peel right off. Then mash them using a stick blender or a food processor).
Preheat oven to 400°F and have ready a pie shield and a large rimmed cookie sheet.
Line a deep dish pie glass pie plate with the pie pastry rounds, fluting the edges decoratively as desired. Combine in order the pumpkin, sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.
Lightly beat eggs together with both milks, then add to the pumpkin mixture, stirring well to combine--it will be rather thin.
Pour as much filling as you can into unbaked pie pastry and bake at 400°F for 50 minutes (or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out without any goo on it). If there is any extra filling use to fill a smaller mini pie plate or discard.
NOTE: Set cookie sheet on the rack below the rack you are setting your pie plate on in order to catch any drips. I did not need to do this as I did not overfill the pastry cases and in fact got one large and one small pie out of the recipe.
If the pie edges start overbrowning, place a pie shield or a ring of foil over the edges--this will be needed or not depending on the type of pastry you use.
October 31, 2006
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There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. —Luke 15:7 dreaded the idea of attending a memorial service for an old friend. Fred had rejected the need for Jesus in his life, and because of that I was sure he was lost forever.
Yet Fred's many friendships had included followers of Jesus. At the service, as one of those friends spoke of a conversation he had in Fred's last months, my eyes filled with tears.
Fred had asked him, "Do you think I'll go to heaven?" The friend had honestly replied, "No, Fred. I don't think so." As they talked, Fred's wall of resistance began to fall, and he said, "Philip, I believe that what the Bible says is true." After a lifetime of rejecting the free gift of salvation, Fred finally accepted Jesus as his Savior.
With happy tears, I thought about the verse: "There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance" (Luke 15:7). Jesus and the angels were rejoicing with me.
As Fred had requested, we stood and sang, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!" To my friend, those familiar words had become a personal reality.
Let's bring more joy to heaven by spreading the good news: Jesus loves us—this we know!
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A nice array of pumpkins you've gotten together, Dolly. Thank you for the thread today. And, thanks to all for dressing up these haunted halls with your Halloween graphics, recipes and stories. This is sure to be a fun thread.
