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Share Your Thanksgiving Recipies
Share your favorite recipes with other Patch users and pick up a few new ones to try for yourself.
Every year in households across the area, family cooks spend countless hours pouring through cookbooks and magazine clippings to come up with a menu to please everyone at the table.
Vegan, vegitarian, gulten-free, lactose-free, low-calorie or butter-filled and heart-attack-inducing, we want those recipes.
On our part, Patch has scoured our cooking columns and recipe call-outs from last year to pull a favorite:
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"If you're interested in making your own pumpkin pie, here is my very favorite recipe," said Cooking In Real Time columnist Lezlie Crosswhite. "It's a mishmash of a half-dozen recipes, combined to make what I consider the ultimate pumpkin pie. My rescue group sells these at our annual Thanksgiving bake sale and they get rave reviews!"
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- 1 10-inch, unbaked pie crust to fit a 9-inch deep-dish pie pan
- 2 cups canned pumpkin (16 oz can)
- ½ cup + 2 T lightly packed light brown sugar
- 2 T gingersnap cookie crumbs
- ½ cup real maple syrup, Grade B (Mrs. Butterworth will not do – get the real thing!)
- 1 cup half & half, cream, or evaporated milk
- 2 T Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur
- 2 extra large eggs
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp ginger
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ¼ cup chopped pecans
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Send in your recipes to make life a little easier and a little tastier for your neighbors! You can post here or email katie.griffith@patch.com. Sharing is caring, afterall.
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