Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients
1 cup/250 mL sugar
1 tbsp/15 mL all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL salt
1 tbsp/15 mL Pumpkin Pie Spice
3 large eggs
1-1/2 cups/375 mL mashed, cooked pumpkin (or use canned)
1 cup/250 mL evaporated milk
1 unbaked 9-inch/23-cm pastry pie shell (recipe on Web site)

Crème Chantilly
1 cup/240 mL heavy whipping cream
2 to 4 tbsp/30 to 60 mL powdered sugar (depending on sweetness desired)
1 tsp/5 mL Original Double-Strength Vanilla

Cooking Directions
Combine sugar, flour, and salt; beat in eggs. Stir in pumpkin and milk. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 400ºF/205ºC for 50 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean.

Crème Chantilly
Chill the small bowl and beaters of an electric mixer (if in a hurry, place in freezer). Beat the cream in chilled bowl until it begins to thicken. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat until stiff. Do not overbeat.

Makes 10 servings.

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