Carter Family Recipes
West Texas pumpkin pecan pie slice on green-and-brown glazed pottery.

West Texas pumpkin pecan pie slice on green-and-brown glazed pottery.

  • 1 9-inch pie shell; unbaked
  • 1½ cups pumpkin pie filling
  • ½ cup pecan halves toasted
  • 4 eggs
  • ¾ cups granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup rum
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1½ cups whipping cream
  1. Preheat oven to 425ºF.
  2. Combine pumpkin and pecans in bowl of a food processor; process until smooth and well blended. Scrape pumpkin mixture into bowl. Beat in eggs. Add sugar, rum, cinnamon, ginger and cloves; blend well. Add cream; stir until completely mixed. Pour pumpkin mixture into pie shell.
  3. Bake in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.
  4. Reduce heat to 300ºF bake about 40 minutes longer until a knife inserted slightly off center comes out clean.
  5. Serve warm or at room temperature.

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