Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving

[uwila]

Does anyone know where I can buy a pumpkin pie? Failing the complete pie, how about a tin of the filling?

I will go anywhere in greater London to get this. Thanksgiving just won't be the same without pumpkin pie

buy a pumpkin?

I bought pumpkin pie filling from that deli/store on the kings road - shepherds? - once

i bet selfridges food hall have it

Auntymandy, are you joking? God only knows what it would taste like if I tried to cook from scratch.

Selfridges... splendid idea.

Anyone else?

The Rosslyn Delicatessan in Hampstead will stock pumpkin pie filling I'm sure.look on www.delirosslyn.co.uk.

Selfridges stock tinned pumpkin puree, not pie filling - you have to add condensed milk (I think?) and some other stuff.

And Harrods have ready-made pumpkin pies. But they're not quite the same as supermarket brand back home, a bit better maybe, but if it's nostalgia you're after, they're just not right.

Making pumpkin puree yourself isn't hard at all, anyway - you just cook pumpkins and run them through a sieve.

the pie filling I bought had sugar and cinamon in it, lush

I have a really nice and very easy pumpkin pie recipe from the gloriously-named Fannie Farmer cookery book. You just steam the pumpkin flesh, mash it, mix it up with other stuff and bung it into a pasty case. I'll post the recipe if you want.

Reddevil, Are you farmiliar with the area around Rosslyn Delicatessan? Is there anywhere to park? I'd have to go on a saturday and with a 5 month and 2 1/2 year old. So the idea of public transport doesn't really appeal to me.

anyone else?

Planet Organic does it, or certainly has done in past years. Give them a call - mail order no. is 020 7221 1345. They're Westbourne Grove, or just off Tottenham Court Road. Also branch in Fulham, I see.

I get Libby's pumpkin pie in my local Sainsbury's. Barring that, Harvey Nick's food shop.

I REALLY love Williams-Sonoma pumpkin pie filling, but I have to have family send it over. Then I use a store-bought crust or frozen shortcrust.

but thanksgiving was last month!!

in Canada wink wink

EIS, you are kidding me! They have Libby's pumpkin pie? Is it that really industrial sort of pie? It's got to be, right? Frozen?

Damn, this is the pie I want every year. Well, this year's not too bad, as I made a bunch of pumpkin bread, and some parent at the Guy Fawkes party had made really good pumpkin pie, which of course, no English people wanted.

But I will have to check out our local Sainsbury's for frozen pumpkin pie. That would be so so so good.

(I should just make it. I puree pumpkin very happily. I have no problem with the rest of it ... except for the crust. I have some sort of shortcrust pastry filling, it never comes out right, and the more I fiddle with it, the worse it is.)

No, it's just the filling! Sorry, I misread the question.

I usually get the filling and then a 'cheater' crust and pop it all in the oven.

Williams-Sonoma really the best, though.

Yeah, our local Sainsbury's has those cheater crusts, but they're normally a bit dented or broken.

I really have to get around my pastry phobia, I know I do, there are a couple of things I really want to eat that involve shortcrust pastry. (I'm fine with puff, and great with filo.)

Hmmm, if I don't sort this out, the DSes won't love pumpkin pie. They already love peanut butter and corn on the cob, so they're a bit Canadian (North American, whatever), but they need pumpkin pie.

(Also, egg nog. But how do I get that? I had some Japanese pasteurised egg nog a few years back ...)

Williams-Sonoma does have the best pumpkin pie filling, do you want a recipe uwila or do you just want to purchase one?

2 Eggs ¼ tsp Allspice
1 Cup Sugar ½ tsp Ginger
1 ½ cups pumpkin ½ tsp Nutmeg
1 12 oz Can evaporated Milk 1 ½ tsp Cinnamon
Pre Baked Pie Shell 1 ½ tsp Vanilla

METHOD

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. In a blender: Add two eggs at low speed. Add the sugar, 1 ½ cups of pumpkin and the can of evaporated milk. Then add all of the spices. Pour the mixture into the pre-baked pie shell. Cook the pie for 20 minutes at 350 degrees, turn the oven down to 325 degrees for the last few minutes. The pie needs to be firm in the middle and it?s done.

It really is easy-peasy in the blender Uwila! 350 degrees is 180C

Thanks Sunchowder. I've copied the recipe down. I thinkI'll try to buy one or at least the filling but if I can't find it, I'll venture to make from scatch -- a scary thought for sure.

One question: Is the 1 1/2 cups pumpkin to be measured after it is cooked and pureed?

And how doe one prepare/cook the pumpkin? I gather the orange shell is cut/sliced off? And the stringy gook and seeds cut away as well. Do you stema the pumpkin? Microwave it? I tell ya, I'm a complete beginner.

Okay, so that was way more than one question.

Oh, and can I find evaporated milk at Sainsburys/Tecso/Waitrose?

Uwila-there is pay and display parking outside Rosslyn Deli but being Hampstead it's always a bit of a nightmare finding free spaces.If you're really desperate I think they do mail order.Good luck!
Is pumpkin pie really that nice? It always sounds rather disgusting to me!

It's wonderful.

Evaporated milk is readily avaiable in Tesco's, Sainsbury's, etc. I find it where the long-life/UHT milk is.