Food & Entertaining

Pumpkin Orange Pie Thanksgiving Dessert Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon corn starch 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 cups pumpkin 1 2/3 cups evaporated milk 2 eggs 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 2 teaspoons grated orange peel 1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell

Method:

1. Combine 1 cup brown sugar, cornstarch, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and pumpkin.

2. Stir in milk and eggs.

3. Pour into pastry shell. Filling is generous–crimp edges high. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 40 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, combine remaining ingredients – 1 Tablespoon brown sugar, butter or margarine, flour, walnuts, and orange peel.

5. Remove pie from oven, and spoon this nut mixture over pie.

6. Return pie to oven, and bake 5 – 10 minutes more. Remove from oven and let cool.

Makes: 1 – 9 inch pie