Name: Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Ingredients: ½ tsp. each: cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger; whipped cream; 1 8-inch baked pie shell; 3 egg yolks; ¼ cup cold water; 1 envelope unflavored gelatine; ¼ cup white sugar; 4 egg whites; ½ cup evaporated milk or cream; 1¼ cups canned puréed pumpkin; ½ cup brown sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

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Good Cheap Food

By Miriam Ungerer

Published 1973

About

Traditional pumpkin pie has never been one of my favorites, but the inexorable demand for it at Thanksgiving and Christmas led me to this invention. Delicate and creamy, this burdened holiday stomach.

Ingredients

1 8-inch baked pie shell
1 envelope unflavored gelatine

Dessert
Pie

Method

Soften the gelatine in the cold water. Beat the egg yolks well in the top of a double boiler. Stir in the evaporated milk or cream and the pumpkin, brown sugar, and spices, mixing well. Cook, stirring over hot water, until smooth and thickened. Add gelatine and stir until dissolved. Cool to tepid. This is important; otherwise the hot custard will collapse the egg whites. Whip the egg whi

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