The paper below is the first ever "pompkin” pie recipe from 1796. The recipe must have typos because it didn’t come out as expected. So instead, I bring you my crowd-pleasing pumpkin pie recipe.
The first ever printed pumpkin, “pompkin”, pie recipe. It appears in American Cookery, the first American cookbook, by Amelia Simmons in 1796. The recipe seems to have typos in the amounts because it didn’t come out as expected.
Instead, here is my own recipe for a crowd-pleasing pumpkin pie.