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Well, since tomorrow is Halloween we thought we would do things up right around here and make a recipe from Vincent Price! And yes, it is because the Vincent Price Cookalong is going to be this Monday, November 4th. We are pretty excited around here, and so we decided to celebrate with pie.

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Vincent Price’s pumpkin pie, to be exact.

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Pumpkin Pie
Author: Come Into the Kitchen Cook Book, Mary and Vincent Price,1969
Ingredients
  • 1 9-inch unbaked pie shell
  • 1 1/2 cups canned or mashed cooked pumpkin
  • 3 eggs, well beaten
  • 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
  • 3/4 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground mace
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger
Instructions
  1. Make the pie shell with a high scalloped edge (*Ruth’s Note: Or use a deep dish pie plate), refrigerate for several hours.
  2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  3. In a large bowl (with a pouring lip if you have one) combine the pumpkin with the eggs, then the cream, sugar, salt and spices. Blend well and pour into the chilled pie shell.
  4. Bake for 15 mins, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for 50-65 minutes more, or until knife inserted in center of the pie comes out with only a few flecks clinging to it.
  5. Chill before serving. Makes about 8 servings.

 

Now, I have to admit there isn’t actually anything creepy or spooky about this pumpkin pie. Unless you don’t like mace. Then it’s pretty terrifying.

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Actually, for me it was pretty scary. It turns out I need to improve my reading skills, because I had NO IDEA this recipe called for mace instead of cinnamon. None. Until I was making the recipe. Measuring the spices, actually.

“Oh, son of a…”

“What? Did you cut yourself?”

“No, I’m just an idiot. This pie doesn’t have any cinnamon in it. It has mace instead.”

“Wait..what?”

“I need mace for the pie.”

“You’re going to…mace…the pie?”

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“No. I need mace the spice for the pie. Instead of cinnamon.”

“What the heck is that?”

“It’s like this weird little covering from around nutmeg, all ground up.”

“Oh, thank God. I thought you had finally lost it and you were going to mace the pie.”

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So it was a late night trip to the store for me, where I purchased a $10 container of ground mace. Yippee.

On the positive side, this is the first time I’ve ever made a pumpkin pie without cinnamon. Also, this is the first time I’ve made a pumpkin pie without evaporated milk. Up until this point I had just been cranking out the recipe on the back of the Libby can every year at Thanksgiving.

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Interestingly, this pie was much, much more orange than my normal pie. Probably because mace is considerably lighter in color than cinnamon!

“So, what’s this going to taste like?”

“I have no clue. You’d better get tasting!”

“Put the mace in my face.”

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“This is pretty good.”

The Verdict: Pretty Good

The flavor of mace was strong and spicy, but not too strong. We didn’t even actually miss the cinnamon, as the mace has the same sort of spicy taste as cinnamon. The pie had a great, silky texture, much lighter than pies made with evaporated milk. Overall a good pie, and not scary at all. Unless, of course, you are a pumpkin.

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