I set the oven wrong and burnt the pumpkin pies!
Under the burnt layer it's the usual tasty custard, and I kind of like the burnt layer... This is fine. I am starting a trend! Like Basque cheesecake, but for pumpkin pie.
This recipe makes two pumpkin custard pies put of one can of pumpkin, having been through the Great Depression. It's economical and tasty!
The best part is that I don't make any pie crust. The copy of the recipe I saw had "get pie crust from Lucille" scrawled on it. Nobody really knows who Lucille was, but we assume she was a friend of my great great grandmother's, who originated this particular recipe and spice blend. All anyone knows is that they copied down to get Lucille's pie crust, like their mothers before them.