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Pumpkin Cheese Pie

From the family recipe box

FromRecipe Box
Serves
one 9" or 10" pie
Course
Sweets

Crust

  • 1½ c. graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 T. sugar (brown)
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ c. melted butter

Filling

  • 1 pkg (8 oz) cr. cheese
  • ¾ c. wt. sugar (white)
  • 2 T. flour
  • ¾ c. rich milk or cream
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups pumpkin
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp grated lemon peel
  • ¼ tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp vanilla

Method

Mix crumbs, sugar, cinn. & melted butter, press in 9" or 10" pie plate. Bake 350° 10 min.

In large bowl toss sugar & flour & blend into cream cheese. Add remaining ingred. and beat until smooth.

Pour into cooled crust. Bake 350° about 60 min or until knife comes out clean.

Cool pie, spread with sour cream sweetened (1 T. sugar + few gtts vanilla). Refrigerate and garnish with pecans if desired.

Notes

Two-sided card — ingredients continue onto the back with the method. "gtts" is the apothecary abbreviation for drops. The sour-cream topping quantity is given only as "C." on the card; read as a cup of sour cream with 1 T. sugar stirred in.

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