Most recipes tell you to grab pumpkin pie spice and leave it at that. I use five, measured one at a time: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. It sounds like more work. It isn’t. You already have all five in your cupboard, you control exactly how much of each goes in, and you’re not buying a jar of a blend you’ll use once a year.<\/p>\n
A lot of recipes reach for sweetened condensed milk. It works, but the sugar comes with it and you have no say in how much. I use evaporated milk and add my own brown sugar. I like what brown sugar tastes like, better than anonymous white sugar, and I decide the amount. Evaporated milk has had about 60% of its water removed, so it gives a dense, smooth custard that slices clean.<\/p>\n
I’ve read plenty of times that you have to blind bake the crust for pumpkin pie. I don’t, and my bottom crust comes out right. The pie starts at 425 \u00b0F, and that heat sets the pastry before the filling’s moisture has time to soak through. I use a store-bought crust on top of that, because it’s good and it saves me a step. A pie you actually make on a Tuesday beats a perfect pie you never make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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