ANTIQUE RECIPE
take large sized pumpkin, firm of deep color, wash and boil just as you would potatoes with skin on. When thoroughly cooked pass carefully through sieve clearing it of all lumps seeds ect.
Take 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, mix well together. Beat the whites and yolks of 4 eggs well together and mix with the pumpkin well. Then add molasses and sugar. a pinch of salt, 4 tsp of best ginger, 1 tsp ground cinnamon take 1 cup milk and mix well. This is intended to make 6 pies.
should pumpkin not be a large one add less milk so as not to get to thin. Bake in deep plate lined with plain pastry about 30 min or till center of pie is firm.
Squash pie is made in same way.
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