Maple Pumpkin Pudding (or, A Crustless Pumpkin Pie)

An entire book about pie … and this isn’t even a pie recipe! Instead, it’s more of a baked pudding. Or you could also think of it as a crustless pie. Most crucially, it’s made with all precolonial ingredients, meaning nothing that arrived here as a result of European settlement: pumpkin, maple syrup, corn, and pecans. If you do make it for a holiday, use it as an entry point to discuss why certain traditional recipes (like classic pumpkin pie) look the way they do, and what that legacy mean