CLASSIC PUMPKIN PIE WITH PECAN STREUSEL

By jarren

Accompaniment: lightly whipped cream
Special equipment: pie weights or raw rice

Ingredients

• Pastry dough
• 15-oz can of canned solid-pack pumpkin (about 2 cups)
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup whole milk
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• pinch of ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Preparation

Step 1

Make pastry dough as directed. Roll out dough into a 14-inch round on a lightly floured surface and fit into a 9-inch glass pie plate (4 cup capacity). Crimp edge decoratively and prick bottom all over. Chill for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Line shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in middle of oven for 20 minutes. Remove weights and foil and bake shell until pale golden, 6 to 10 minutes more. Cool in pan on a rack. Whisk together pumpkin, cream, milk, eggs, brown sugar, spices and salt, then pour into shell.

Bake pie in middle of oven 45 to 50 minutes or until filling is set but center still trembles slightly. (Filling will continue to set as pie cools.) Transfer to rack and cool completely.