Homemade Pumpkin Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/8 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (**see variation)
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 2/3 cups milk
1 1/2 cups mashed cooked pumpkin
1/2 recipe plain pie pastry

Preparation

Sift dry ingredients together and stir into eggs.
Add milk and pumpkin.
Line piepan with pastry and pour in filling.
Bake in very hot oven (450 degrees) for 10 minutes; reduce temperature to slow (325 degrees) and bake 35 minutes longer or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool.
**Variation:Use 1 Tsp.
cinnamon, 1/4 Tsp nutmeg 1/2 Tsp ginger and 1/8 Tsp ground cloves instead of pumpkin pie spice.