Pumpkin Pie Recipe and Spell

Pumpkin Pie. 
My son's favorite part of Thanksgiving Dinner.

Here's the basic recipe I use,  (with an improvement from Dorene) along with the spell to make for a pleasant evening.

Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients:
* 1 1/4 cups pumpkin puree, canned or fresh  (Fresh is best!)
* 3/4 cup sugar  (I like organic cane sugar, unbleached)
* 1/2 teaspoon salt (sea salt is best)
* 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon allspice
* 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour, sifted  (organic unbleached rocks)
* 2 eggs, lightly beaten
* 1 cup cream (thanks Dorene)
* 2 tablespoons water
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 unbaked pastry shell (9-inch) *see after pie recipe

PREPARATION:
Combine pumpkin, sugar, salt, spices, and flour in a medium mixing bowl.  As you add each ingredient, say or sing, "as I add you, magic be.  Combine to make harmony."  Add eggs; mix well as you say or sing, "Eggs of life I add as well, bind together this sweet spell".  Add evaporated milk, water, and vanilla; mix. As you mix, speak or sing "pumpkin mixture sweet and spice, all who taste you shall be nice". Pour into your prepared pastry in the pie pan. (as you pour, visualize the mixture as kindness in liquid form, and smile)  Bake at 400° for 15 minutes; reduce heat to 350° and bake about 35 minutes longer, or until center is set.

When you open the oven, inhale and as the scent of your lovely pie wafts out, say or sing, "All who smell or taste or see, speak with only harmony".

You will have a lovely pie and a lovely evening.



*Pie crust:
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup lard
3 to 4 teaspoons water

Mix flour and salt. (I sift mine as I sing, "salt of life and flour ground, many blessings shall abound")  Add the lard, cutting it into the flour with a pastry blender or two knives.  Sing or say "fat for coating fat for warm, keep us healthy safe from harm".  You want to work it in until it is in pieces about the size of a pea. You do not 'cream' it as you do with cookie dough. Add water slowly, folding it in with a fork. You do not want to finish up with a homogenous mixture. Take it easy on the mixing and cutting-in both. You want just enough water that it will adhere. Chill, then roll out on a floured board with a floured rolling pin. Place in pie dish and pat gently into place. Prick the bottom.
As you prepare the crust, think about the foundations of peace and love you wish for your loved ones.