New England Squash Pie With Pecan Topping

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups strained strained mashed cooked squash
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• 1 make topping by heating the brown sugar and butter together until sugar is dissolved; stir in pecans and set aside.
• 2 mix all filling ingredients together until well blended. pour into a pastry-lined pie pan. bake at 425° for 45-55 minutes. ten minutes before pie is done remove from oven and arrange pecan topping in a ring around the outer edge of the pie. return pie to oven to bake the last 10 minutes.
• 3 (when baking this pie, place pie plate on a cookie sheet in case it cooks over).
• 4 cool completely before refrigerating. this pie must be stored in the refrigerator.