DRUNKEN APPLE-PUMPKIN PIE

DRUNKEN APPLE-PUMPKIN PIE image

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Number Of Ingredients 15

1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell
1 cup cooked pumpkin or winter squash, well drained
2 eggs
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup thick, chunky applesauce
1 Tbspn all-purpose flour
1/2 tspn salt
1 tspn cinnamon
1 tspn ginger
1/4 tspn nutmeg
1/8 tspn allspice1/8 tspn cloves
1-1/2 cups half-and-half (or use 1 12-oz can evaporaed milk)
1 tspn vanilla
1 cup pecan halves
2 Tbspns rum

Steps:

Preheat oven to 425 Chill pie shell till needed. Mash pumpkin or squash. In a bowl, beat together the eggs and sugar till light. Mix in the pumpkin, applesauce, flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, half-and-half and vanilla and blend thoroughly. Pour into pie shell. Arrange pecan halves attractively over top of filling. Bake in lower third of oven for 20 minutes, then reduce oven heat to 350 and bake 30 to 35 minutes longer or till filling is firm and a knife inserted 1 inch from the edge comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. At serving time, warm rum in a small container suitable for pouring. Light the rum with a mach and pour immediately while flaming over he pie serve with ice cream or whipped cream.