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Samhain!

Recipe:

Here is a really good pumpkin custard to serve at your feast of the dead!

Ingredients:   4 sugar pumpkins (these are also called pie pumpkins, they're the little ones)   2 cups heavy whipping cream   3/4 cup pure maple syrup*   6 beaten egg yolks   8 table spoons brown sugar   * note: Your ancestors will not like it  if you substitute any                            maple flavored syrup for the real thing ;)

Preheat oven to 325 Remove tops  and clean the pumpkins Sprinkle the inside of each pumpkin with one table spoon of brown sugar Bake the pumpkins, uncovered, for 45 minutes Remove from oven and remove about half of the pulp from each pumpkin Chop pulp fine and set aside pumpkin shells Pour the cream, maple syrup and pulp into a sauce pan and bring to a simmer Add the egg yolks (a little at a time) stirring continuously until thickened (about the thickness of pudding) Pour evenly into shells and place on baking sheet Bake another 45 minutes uncovered Remove from oven and sprinkle with one table spoon of brown sugar each Place under broiler for 1 minute Let cool Eat!   *The custard is best at room temp :)