Recipe - Caramel Pumpkin Pie

1 Prepared double crust pie
shell
One half cup Evaporated milk
One fourth cup Granulated sugar
1 cup Heavy cream or light cream
Three fourths cup Packed dark brown sugar
2 tablespoon Honey
2 cup Canned pumpkin puree
1 tablespoon Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One half teaspoon Grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon Ground cloves
One fourth teaspoon Salt
3 Eggs; room temperature
2 teaspoon Vanilla

Position shelf in bottom third of oven. Heat to 425°. Line 9inch pie pan
with single crust. Cut out leaf shapes from other crust. Line pie shell
with foil; fill with dried beans or rice. Place on baking sheet with leaf
cutouts. Bake for 810 minutes, until light brown. Remove foil with beans;
remove leaves to rack to cool. Return pie shell to oven. Bake until bottom
sets, pricking with fork any places that bubble up, about 5 minutes. Remove
to rack to cool. Leave oven on at 425°.

In saucepan, heat milk until small bubbles appear around edge of pan.
Remove from heat.

Make caramel: Place granulated sugar in heavy 3qt saucepan. Placeover
medium heat, without stirring, until sugar beings to melt. Tilt pan all
around to continue melting, until medium brown, 12 minutes totoal. Remove
from heat. Carefully add hot milk all at once; mixture will bubble up, then
subside. Stir in cream, brown sugar and honey; stir to dissolve sugar. If
clumps do not dissolve, simmer briefly, stirring, 2 minutes. Cool to room
temperature.

Place pumpkin puree in large bowl. Sprinkle with cornstarch, cinnamon,
nutmeg, cloves and salt; stir to blend. whisk in eggs, one at a time. Stir
in caramel and vanilla. Turn filling into pie shell.

Bake on baking sheet in 425° for 10 minutes. Lower oven temperature to
325°. Continue to bake about 45 minutes or until center is set. Turn oven
off. Leave pie in oven with door partially open. Let cool completely.
Garnish top with pastry leaves. Serve with whipped cream if you wish.

Recipe by: Family Circle 11/18/97

Posted to EATL Digest by The Taillons taillon@EARTHLINK.NET on Nov 23,
1997