Grandma Cottington's Pumpkin Pie
- 223 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup butter chilled, cut into pieces
- 1/2 cup lard or vegetable oil shortening, chilled, cut into pieces
- 8 tablespoons water ice cold (more or less as needed)
- 3 cups pumpkin puree (canned)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 6 tablespoons flour, all-purpose
- 3 large eggs large
- 3 tablespoons molasses
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon ground
- 3/4 teaspoon allspice ground
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- For Crust:
- Blend flour, sugar and salt in processor 10 seconds.
- Add unsalted butter and lard and process until mixture resembles coarse meal, using on/off turns.
- Blend in 6 tablespoons water.
- Mix in enough additional water by tablespoonfuls until moist clumps form.
- Gather dough into ball; divide in half.
- Flatten each half into disk.
- Wrap tightly in plastic and refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour.
- (Can be made 1 day ahead and kept refrigerated).
- Let dough disks soften slightly at room temperature before continuing.
- Roll out 1 dough disk on lightly floured surface to 12-inch round.
- Transfer to 9-inch-diameter glass pie plate.
- Trim overhang to 1 inch; fold edges under.
- Crimp crust edge decoratively, forming high-standing rim.
- Repeat rolling and shaping with remaining dough disk.
- Freeze crust 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C).
- Line crusts with foil; fill with dried beans or pie weights.
- Bake crusts until pale golden, piercing with toothpick if crust bubble, about 15 minutes.
- Cool completely on racks.
- Maintain oven temperature.
- For filling:
- Whisk all ingredients in large bowl to blend.
- Pour half of pumpkin filling (about 3 3/4 cups) into each prepared pie crust.
- Bake pies until filling is set in center, about 1 hour.
- Cool pies on racks.
flour, sugar, salt, butter, lard, water, pumpkin puree, sugar, heavy whipping cream, milk, flour, eggs, molasses, cinnamon ground, allspice ground, salt
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/grandma-cottingtons-pumpkin-pie-34280 (may not work)