PUMPKIN PIE
This traditional Thanksgiving dish was a fixture with the Casada family. We always had four or five choices of dessert, but this was one of my favorites. We grew our own pumpkins as well as cushaws, and the “meat” from the latter will also work in this recipe.
- 1 cup stewed pumpkin
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- Pastry (unbaked pie shell)
Add the sugar and seasonings to the pumpkin and mix well. Then add the slightly beaten eggs and the milk. Lastly stir in the melted butter. Turn into a pie plate lined with pastry and bake in a 425-degree oven for 5 minutes. Then lower the heat to 350 degrees and bake until the filling is set. The pie should be allowed to cool prior to serving.
JC
—Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a slightly damaged but new copy of Celebrating Southern Appalachian Food written by Jim Casada and Tipper Pressley. To be entered in the giveaway leave a comment on this post. Giveaway ends November 30, 2024. There will be two winners for this giveaway.
I know there will be lots of pumpkin pies made this week. My favorite after Thanksgiving Dinner snack is a piece of pumpkin pie with a roll stuffed with turkey, ham, or deer meat.
Last night’s video: Digging Potatoes in November & We Are Who We Are.
Tipper
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I love pumpkin rolls better than the pie. Once I had a cushaw pie and it was simply delicious. Do you like that, Tipper. I AM THANKFUL for you and your family, dear heart.
I’ve only attempted to make pumpkin pie once in my life and it was a disaster. My grandma was having health issues at the time, so the task of making it was on me. l I just couldn’t get the crust to roll out into anything that even resembled a circle (unlike my grandma, she was a skilled baker). Something I forgot my grandma did until my sister reminded me, is she used to make all of her pies from scratch (a feat I can only aspire to)! We’ve been buying our pumpkin pies since she passed, but as you can imagine, Thanksgiving just isn’t the same without her. I hope everyone who reads this has a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving!
Thank you, Tipper, for sharing these recipes with us!
Sweet potato pie!!
Tipper, I’m commenting again for Ashley B. If the generator picks me please send my cookbook to her. 🙂 I commented yesterday but for some reason it didn’t show up.
In the oven now. I have baked a lot of Pumpkin Pies over the years. Thought I would give yours a try this year. They look delicious. I made a buttery crust to put it in. I have cooked several things from your cookbook and enjoyed each one. Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy and blessed Thanksgiving to everyone! I’m very thankful the Lord has filled my life with good people, some (like you all) that I’ll never meet in person but am still so blessed to communicate with through the internet.
I already have the great cookbook and have a can of pumpkin we put up all ready to go. I’m not sure if it’ll be Tipper’s pumpkin roll or Jim’s pie that I end up making. Choices are too hard sometimes! ☺️
If by some crazy chance, I got picked for a winner again, just pass it on to the next in line. I wanted to comment but didn’t want to be entered to win again and take somebody else’s chance.
My family cooks and freezes a large pumpkin in the fall and we have pie the year round. If we run out of pumpkin we sub butternut squash. My recipe is similar to the one posted but doesn’t involve a crust and we prefer it that way. I would never use canned pumpkin!
Tipper, I’m commenting again for Ashley B. If the generator picks me please send my cookbook to her. 🙂
I LOVE pumpkin pie & I’d love to win a copy of your cookbook. 🙂
I love pumpkin pie but I am alone in that pleasure and have quit making it as I end up eating way more than is good for me. I do make pumpkin cookies and all of us enjoy them. The best pumpkin I ever grew was when the plant started out as a very hardy plant in the compost bin. I would love to enjoy one of your and Jim’s cookbooks. I have watched and saved many a recipe.
Yay for pumpkin pie!! 🙂 You’re favorite after Thanksgiving dinner snack is exactly the same as my day after thanksgiving snack !! 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
I like sweet potato better. And pecan; any nut can be substituted for the pecan or just mixed & it’s still delish!
We are having fresh pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving this year and we may very well use this recipe! Thank you so much for sharing! I would love to have your wonderful cookbook!
Sounds delicious!
I didn’t start making pumpkin pies until late in my life. Previously I had tasted a store bought pumpkin pie that a friend brought to church. It wasn’t very good.
Many years later I married my husband who loved pumpkin pie so I had to learn to make them.
Then earlier this year I watched you Tipper making one from a Candy Roaster you grew. This fall I went in search of a Candy Roaster and found one! I’m making a pie from it this week, using your recipe. I’m so excited to try it! I would love to win Celebrating Southern Appalachian Foods.
I can still remember the first time I tried pumpkin pie. I was a teenager. It was so good. I thought to myself, I can’t believe I’ve been missing this all these years!!! ❣️
I know this for a fact, the Lord always provides. I’ve been looking for a good pumpkin pie recipe and here we are! The great sounding recipe for a pumpkin pie. Thanks Tipper, I really appreciate you and the good things you share onBP&A. Happy Thanksgiving and may God continue to bless us all.
I purchased your cookbook when it first came out and I love it. I’d love to win this one to give to my friend Susie.
This pumpkin pie sounds delicious! I hope to taste a cushaw one day.
Love Pumpkin Pie and would love a copy of youy cookbook.
Kathy
I’ve never really ate a pumpkin pie, and I’m 50. I’ve always had sweet potato pies. I’ll have to try one homemade and see how it is.
I’ve been having a tough couple years, but God has been so good to me and blessed me beyond what I deserve. I’d love to have your cookbook, but I just haven’t had the money to buy one. I’m glad you’ve been able to sell them and I sure know you feel our love for you and your family. God bless you and Jim and both your families.
We celebrated with my wife’s family Saturday. I think there were 38 people there, plus a couple of dogs and at least one cat. I had pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie. Evidently both were store bought as there was very little difference in the taste. Skip me for the cookbook as I already have one.
Tipper…..one of the blessings I will be counting this Thanksgiving…..is finding your posts and videos online. You feel like family to so many of us…..blessing our days…..and making our hearts smile. May God bless each of you…..at Thanksgiving, and always.
I would Love to win.
I didn’t care for pumpkin pie as a kid, but I’ve grown to appreciate it. I would love to add your cookbook to my collection to try your recipes.
Good morning everyone. I love pumpkin pie. But I only make it at Thanksgiving. I guess I consider it a holiday dessert. No one in my family likes it but me and one of my sons. The oldest son drinks protein shakes for breakfast, he puts a slice of pumpkin pie in the blender and whips it all together. He says it’s delicious. I guess we all have a food others would say is strange. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Anna from Arkansas.
Love pumpkin pie. Making them with my granddaughters has become a Thanksgiving tradition.
Pumpkin pie is my favorite! I tell myself it’s healthy, as it is mainly vegetable, along with eggs & milk. (I try not to think about the sugar.) I’m mostly polite & eat a slice on a plate with a fork. But when alone I’ll eat a cold piece right out of the refrigerator just using my hands.
Mom would mix sweet potato with the pumpkin
We love pumpkin pie and it sure wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without one or two. I always process pumpkin and freeze it every year just for pumpkin pie or pumpkin bread etc.,. How I would love a copy of your cookbook. It is like a history of recipes from that area. All of my elder relatives from that part of the country are in heaven now. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We always have had Turkey for Thanksgiving but this year just a smaller one:) My sons and I absolutely love cornbread dressing, cooked to death green beans, pilaf, and I would say the southern cornbread dressing is what we will eat the most of. I always made pumpkin pie because my husband loved it but I prefer what I grew up with – sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving. So my son will bring a small pumpkin pie and I will make a sweet potato pie. It seems like we prefer the sides more than the Turkey. God bless and praying you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
Punkins are not allowed in my house!
Oooh this post made me very excited for all the good food this week will hold! I’ve never had pumpkin pie with stewed and not canned pumpkin. Pumpkin pie is my favorite Thanksgiving dessert.
I like a bite or two of pumpkin pie, but my favorite is blueberry, with whip cream and a coffee. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!!
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving at our house without pumpkin pie!
My preferred pie is a thick slice of apple with a big ol dollip of ice cream, but punkin’ll do in a pinch! Have a great holiday season, all!
My niece always makes the pumpkin pie.
My mom always made the best pumpkin pies, pumpkin cookies and pumpkin rolls. Her pumpkin cookies are soft and cake-like. My sister always makes them for Thanksgiving, serving them with a dollop of cool whip. My daughter-in-law is making pumpkin pie for our Thanksgiving dinner this year. She grew the pumpkins. It will be delicious.
I love Pumpkin Pie! I recently tried a new Pumpkin Pie recipe that was made with Vanilla Pudding and you cook the filling on top of the stove and put it in a pre baked pie shell. It was called a Pumpkin Cream Pie. It was very good! I wondered how it would have been with Butterscotch Pudding instead of Vanilla.
For Thanksgiving this year I am making a Acorn Squash Pie. I have made a Butternut Pie before but never tried Acorn Squash I imagine they are similar.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
May God Bless Granny!
I always thought pumpkin pie wouldn’t be good…until I tried it. It’s my absolute favorite. I could eat the whole thing, which is why I try not to get one because my family won’t try it either. I have your cookbook already, just had to compliment pumpkin pie!
My pumpkin always comes out of a can, but I’d love to try your recipe. I’m sure it’s better with fresh pumpkin!
Pumpkin pie is my all time favorite. My Mom would make them for me. When I would ask for her recipe, she always said “You don’t need a recipe, I’ll make them for you.” After she passed in 2019 we found her handwritten recipe where she knew we would look. I enjoy reading your post every day.
I don’t like pumpkin pie but I certainly would like a copy of your birthday. I know there are other recipes I would enjoy.
I love pumpkin pie and my husband loves sweet tater pie. He’s Polish-German and never grew up eating either. I’m Scotch-Irish, Appalachian decent and the kids are the best of both our worlds and eat both!
All I ask for after Thanksgiving dinner is a slice of pumpkin pie and a cup of coffee. And a copy of your cookbook to read while I’m enjoying them!
In the summer I make squash pie from my yellow summer squash. It tastes just like pumpkin pie though the color is not as vibrant.
Love pumpkin pie!!!Would also like a copy of your cookbook. Enjoy checking out blindpigandtheacorn each morning. Have a blessed day!!
Moma could make the best Pumpkin Pies. We always had them on Thanksgiving, but not any other times of the year. Dad didn’t care for Cinnamon and she didn’t add it in. They were delicious even without it. I use it in mine. Happy Thanksgiving.
I love pumpkin pies, but never have them except at Thanksgiving.
My favorite pumpkin pie is the way my mother makes it with cushaw pumpkin/squash and the top of the pie dusted liberally with cinnamon. Yummy!
Would love to win a copy of your book. I love all your recipes. You definitely have a lot be be thankful this year with the boys.
Happy Thanksgiving, Tipper and family!
Pumpkin pie is my favorite too. It would not be Thanksgiving without it.
I love pumpkin pie but I agree Tipper my favorite post thanksgiving dinner treat is a bun with leftover meat and a slice of pie- yum yum! Have a blessed thanksgiving with your family!
Pumpkin pie was traditional in my family too. We also always had pecan pie and German chocolate cake!
I’d love to have your cookbook!
All of the memories everyone has written here sound wonderful. I am thankful for the wonderful memories I have of Thanksgiving’s gone by. I would love the opportunity to try one of Randy’s mother’s sweet potato cobbler’s that sounds especially good. Growing up I do not remember liking pumpkin pie as much as I did my mother’s Pecan pies, my favorite for Thanksgiving & Christmas. They were one of the best things she made & made it hard for me to like anyone else’s pecan pie. Her recipe was from WFMY tv’s Betty Feezer. I wish mom would have taught me how she made her pecan pies because I have never made her recipe anywhere near as good as she did. I keep trying though.
Love pumpkin pie. My husband and son never liked it so I would make it for myself with a dob of whipped cream. yum!
We use the same recipe every year for pumpkin pie–clipped it out of the local newspaper, secured it inside a Ziploc baggie and kept on the refrigerator door so it will never be lost. Have a blessed Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday!!
I will be baking pies this week. Looking forward to it! Thanks for sharing.
I will try this recipe for pumpkin pie, maybe today.
I love watching you and Matt doing chores together. My husband and I used to work together outside. Today is our 65th anniversary but he has spent the last 11 of those in Heaven. We were blessed with 53 years together!
Anniversary wishes to you. So sorry your beloved husband has gone on to his great reward, but it is still your anniversary, with memories of him. God bless you always. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Love pumpkin pie. Always a favorite in my home, past and present times. I found a new pumpkin recipe this year. Absolutely delicious pumpkin dump cake. I made one and could hardly quit scarfing it down . You all have a good thanksgiving. Love to the family Miss Tipper and Matt.
Lynette, this year (Oct. 26) would have been our 50th anniversary. My wife has been in Heaven for 3 1/2 years now with our daughter and other family members. We knew one another all of lives. It all begin one Sunday night after church, I would tease her and tell her God punished me for looking at girls that night and not listening to the preacher. That is the biggest lie I ever told, she was a blessing to me and the heart&soul of our family. Some of the happiest times of my life was just being with her especially for the 6 months we got to enjoy her retirement and being able to spend each day together. I have a very hard time trying to go on living without her. Seeing Tipper and Matt together makes me think of how it once was for me and my wife.
Thank you for the recipe. Pumpkin pie is my favorite. My daughter makes great ones.
My favorite is Honey Pumpkin Pie made with our own honey!! So delicious!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your sweet family.
I’m baking a pumpkin swirl cheesecake for something different this year. Ginger snap crust and walnut topping. It’s a combination of three recipes.
Pumpkin pie is a favorite here, but we also love pumpkin cake and pumpkin rolls! We will have about 5 or 6 desserts to choose from Thanksgiving Day here along with turkey, ham, rolls, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, corn, dressing, salad, Mac and cheese and deviled eggs. These are the must haves here plus other items show up on the menu as well. It’s our favorite holiday and we love having our family and friends here!
Pumpkin Pie is one of my favorites. However I seem to be the only one in my family who likes it. Oh well, more for me..
Pumken pie is the best dish there is.
I’m excited for another possibility of your cookbook!
Really enjoyed the garden clean up video. Going to check my nasturtiums for seeds today!
Tipper, on a separate note, I got a notification from Etsy that you had some mugs for sale, I went right to buy one and they’re sold out. Those mugs are beautiful, the man who makes them in Brasstown has a real talent. If he’ll make some more I guarantee you’ll sell them out!
Peter-sorry they sold out so quickly. I will list more next Sunday so you can check that day and hopefully get one. I will list them on Sunday until they are all gone. Thank you!!
pumpkin pie is my very favorite.
Thank you!
My favorite part of pumpkin is the seeds. I enjoyed them roasted with salt. Enjoy your pumpkin pie. Happy thanksgiving to you and yours.
Pumpkin pie is my favorite, too! I usually make my first one in September or October, because I can’t wait for Thanksgiving!
This recipe is different and sounds delicious. I wanted to tell you that I found white sweet potatoes and have fallen in love with the taste. Its never too late to teach an old dog new tricks. lol
Deatra-they are so good!
I do love a good pumpkin pie. Recently, my wife made a pie from butternut squash and it was delicious.
Larry, back in ancient times when I was a kid, we grew some butternut squash for a year or two. My Mother made pies from them, I remember liking them too.
My husband loves pie! Any kind of pie will do. I am more of a cake or cookie person. But pumpkin, sweet potato or pecan make me think of the holidays always.
Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite holiday desserts. Especially with a generous dollop of whipped cream. Wishing you and the family a very Happy Thanksgiving!
I love your stories and recipes. Hope to get one of your cookbooks.
Tipper, forgive me for leaving the same comment here and on your video from last night but the story still tickles me so much that I wanted to make sure you and Matt got to hear it.
My Dad always loudly complained about the “stupid cats” that we would have in and out of the house when we were very young. He didn’t seem to have interest in ANY pet, unless it lived outside and served a vital purpose. It wasn’t until my brother and I were teenagers I believe that we began finding him asleep on the couch, curled up with one of the “varmits”, either under his arm or around his head. Now, unbelievably, he and our Mom co-parent a five pound, Chihuahua princess. That dog is hypoglycemic and wants for absolutely NOTHING! Her claws must hurt their skin and Dad keeps work gloves nearby at all times, so he can “play” with her without needing Band-aids. Oh, how the times do change!
Bethany-love that so much 🙂
My daddy’s favorite at Thanksgiving was cushaw pie. I always miss him so during this time of year. He was always peeking over our shoulders asking if there was anything that needed sampling. If something was particularly good to him then he’d say “you better set that aside and not serve it” and wink. Miss those times!
I’m not sure if I have a favorite as it’s all so good!
My late husband used to say, as he got a sample of something, “quality control!”
Debbie, I am southern to the bone. No doubt about it, my favorite food of all Thanksgiving food is GOOD southern style cornbread dressing, gilbit gravy and cranberry sauce. I have and will skip dessert to have room for more dressing. The only thing getting stuffed is me! Good dressing is seasoned enough to give you indigestion! Rita mentioned quality control, I like to eat enough to show the cooks my appreciation for their hard work.
We never grew pumpkins when I was growing up and I have never had a taste for them. I do love sweet potato pies and we would often have them. My Daddy had a special touch when it came to making them. Mother would make a deep dish cobbler pie using sweet potatoes.