Mabel Kirk's Butternut Squash Pie

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Mabel Kirk's Butternut Squash Pie

Ingredients

Heat oven to 400. For crust, combine flour and salt in med bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender or two knifes until flour forms pea-sized chunks. Sprinkle one tablespoon of the ice water over one small section of flour mixture and mix lightly with a fork. Repeat, rotating bowl, one section at a time. Form two-thirds of dough into lg ball, then press down to form a 5-6 inch diameter "pancake" (remainder of dough can be rolled out into a rectangle, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, rolled and cut into little pinwheels, brushed with butter and a sugar-water glaze and baked separately). Sprinkle flour on rolling (preferably taped-down pastry cloth) and, with flour-dusted rolling pin, roll dough into circle until dough is about 1 cm thick. Trim one inch larger than inverted 25 cm Pyrex pie plate. Carefully roll pastry onto rolling pin, then unroll it onto right-side-up pie plate. Press into pie plate. Fold edge under. Flute 1 cm high edge. Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate. Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl and mix at med speed for 5 min. Pour into chilled pastry shell. Cover edge of pie with long strip of aluminum foil to prevent ovebrowning. Bake 10 min at 200ºC . Reduce heat to 190ºC and bake for 25 min. Remove foil. Bake 10-15 min more, or until knife inserted in center comes out clean and crust is golden brown. From "The Washington Post Magazine" 1. 0.010989010989011 Submitted By SAM WARING <SAM.WARING@382-91-12.IMA.INFOMAIL.COM> On MON, 06 NOV 1995 105641 GMT