Before I got around to the actual baking and cooking, I had had great plans for things to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. These mini pumpkin pies were one of the items I planned to make, but after reading (incorrectly, as it turned out) through the recipe, I felt that the dozen it would supply wouldn't be enough so didn't do them.
I had the time a few days later, and started by cooking the pumpkin and so forth. I rolled out my sheet of room-temperature shortcrust pastry (you didn't think I was going to attempt making my own pastry, did you? Thanks for the vote of confidence, but not yet) and stamped out as many circles as I could. After filling them with mix, I couldn't figure out why they were so full and I still had loads of mix left?!
So I read and re-read the recipe, and then discovered that I had bought a 375g packet of pastry, and the recipe required 500g. Aha, problem solved. But what to do with the extra mix? Nah, we couldn't figure that one out either... The pies baked up really well, and tasted very American. Which is to say, sweet and gently spiced and not at all like we expected - good but different. So I won't be making these for us again in a hurry, ha ha.
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