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Default canned pumpkin: Libby's vs One Pie

Dave Smith wrote:
> On 25/11/2011 3:58 PM, Judy Haffner wrote:
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>> I am very "picky" when it comes to pumpkin pie and am always
>> disappointed in commercial, or the homemade ones I've tasted...except
>> for mine, but everybody probably feels that way about their own.<)
>>

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> To tell you the truth, as picky as I am about pies, pumpkin pie is
> probably the one pie where IMO it makes very little difference. Form
> the very best pumpkin pie to the cheapest commercial product, it is the
> one variety of pie where the end result varies the least. There is a
> world of difference between a fresh sour cherry pie and a commercially
> made pie. There is also a huge difference in peach or rhubarb pies, even
> apple pies. But pumpkin? ... very small difference.
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>

I don't think so. A watery product produces a less pumpkiny pie.
IMO, anyway. AND I think my filling is a bit less solid than
usual. There was actually a tad of weeping, and I have never seen
that before on the day the pie was made.

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Jean B.