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Tired Of Pumpkin Pie? Try This Old-School Pumpkin Dessert Instead

It's no secret that pie crusts are tricky to make. Despite being a fairly adept baker, I tend to avoid pies. It's difficult to strike a balance, making something that is flaky but still intact via the perfect ratio of water, shortening, and flour. Even if you buy your pie to sidestep a possible debacle in the kitchen, you might simply be bored with eating the exact same treat every single year. This coming holiday season, solve that problem with a 19th-century recipe that forgoes the crust altogether. An old-school Thanksgiving dessert you should bring to your table is pumpkin pudding.

The pudding is more or less what it sounds like: pumpkin pie filling sans crust. It's a bit like pumpkin mousse

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