Crust for Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare the dish
Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).
Grease a pie dish with butter.
Sprinkle dry cornmeal in the buttered dish, shaking out the excess.
Fill and bake
Prepare your pumpkin filling as you would for any pie.
Pour the pumpkin filling into the prepared pie dish and bake.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Butter
- Greases the dish so the crust releases cleanly and does not stick.
- Cornmeal
- Forms a dry, light coating on the buttered dish that helps the crust release.
The step that matters
Shaking out the excess cornmeal. Too much cornmeal left in the dish can leave a gritty layer on the crust. A thin, even dusting releases cleanly while keeping the surface smooth.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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