Ingredients

• For a 10″ pie crust:
• 4 T of butter, softened
• ⅓ C dark brown sugar
• Cream together butter and sugar and add:
• ½ C chopped Pecans
• This forms the Praline layer. Press over pie crust. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Cool.
• Scald the milk and water:
• 1C evaporated milk (2, 5 oz. cans)
• ⅓ C water
• In a large bowl mix:
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 1½ C of mashed pumpkin (pre-cooked pumpkin: bake sugar pumpkin until soft, cool, and scoop out flesh).
• ½ C sugar
• ½ C brown sugar
• ¼ C maple syrup (optional)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp cloves
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp salt.
• Beat in the Scalding mixture to the sugar, eggs and spices. Pour over praline layer.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 50 mins. until set. Cool.