Steely Dan and Pumpkin PIe

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I am not a dessert girl.. . . My seazter Martha (of St. Charles, MO) is and  encouraged me to bake this and it was AMAZING.  I made a few mistakes and ended up ordering new pie tins from Williams Sonoma ($38.00 and  I will be baking a lot of pies. . .NOT.) with two inch depth cuz my tinfoil ones were worthless ...even doubled!!! It didn't help that the finished pie (before baking) weighed in at two pounds of sloppy soup. And it did help to remember to place the unbaked pie in the bottom of my already in the preheated oven, broiling pan or it would have been a burnt oven mess: I would have sadly ended my Triple Layer Pumpkin Pie Adventure of 2012 before it started and you would not be reading my wisdom (LOL) now!

Make a Mental Note: Moving a loaded tinfoil pie plate into a hot oven will make you look like Lucille Ball and /or Ethel Mertz minus the laugh meter.   (The dog doesn't count)                                                  

                                                       

MARTHA SMITH'S  TRIPLE LAYER PUMPKIN PIE (Yes, Martha Smith is my sister)

(COMMENCE)

In a bowl combine:

1.  1 pkg 8 oz Cream Cheese (SOFTENING SURE HELPS THE PROCESS)

2.  1/3 C Sugar (I like the super fine Baker's Sugar)

3.  1 slightly beaten Egg

4.  1 t. Vanilla

and pour this in to an unbaked pie crust (From the dairy section works for me) and chill (refrigerate if it isn't below 40 degrees on your squirrel less porch today) while you move on to. . .

(PREHEAT YOUR OVEN TO 350*)

Step 2.

Combine and/or mix:

1 can (15 oz.) Pumpkin

+2 slightly beaten Eggs

+1 C Half and Half  ( I am guessing Evaporated Milk may work here too.)

+3/4 C Sugar

+1 T (tablespoon) Pumpkin Spice. Or +, +, +, +...  (Did you know Pumpkin Spice is Cinnamon (4 tsp), Ginger (2 tsp), Allspice (1 tsp) (Anybody know what's in Allspice?) +  Nutmeg (1 tsp) ? and there are 3 tsps in one T. . .you do the math)

Pour this over  "thee chilled above layer" and bake in 350* (preheated) oven for 55 minutes.)

Third layer is the

(+ or - CRISPY) STRUDEL

2 tsp Pumpkin Spice

1/2 C Brown Sugar

1/4 C Flour

1/4 C Old Fashioned Rolled Oats (Oatmeal if you are under 40 y/o)

1/4 C Butter salted or unsalted.  (If you are under 30 y/o: Butter is made from cream . . .not sunflowers or cannola oil.)

Sprinkle this over the baked pie and return to oven (350*) for another 20 minutes or until you think it is toasty.

Bon Appetite!

(If you don't bake then Bon Jour?)