Spiced pumpkin pear tart recipe needed

November 15, 2012 5:43 PM

I need the recipe for this spiced pumpkin pear tart. I have the ingredient list - with some quantities - but no instructions. I think it's from Gourmet or Bon Appetit, probably from the 1990s, but it's not anywhere online. Hope me, Metafilter.

Here is the list of ingredients:
flour, sugar, salt
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 egg (yolks) and 2 large eggs
crystallized ginger
vanilla, cold water
1 16-oz can solid pack pumpkin
1/4 cup whipping cream
ground ginger, coriander, nutmeg, cinnamon
1 lemon or some lemon juice
2 pears
apricot jam
2 tablespoons brandy

The crystallized ginger is in the crust, and the pears are arranged on top in a spiral and brushed with the jam and brandy. I am looking for the exact recipe I have lost: no substitutes, please.

This was a family recipe and I really want to recreate it. Thank you so much.

posted by k8lin to Food & Drink (3 answers total)

Best answer: This looks like it.
posted by thisclickableme at 6:15 PM on November 15, 2012 [3 favorites]

This recipe looks pretty close from Gourmet. Yours may be an adaption? At the very least, you could probably use the basic recipe and fudge it a little. Further there is a Ginger Crème Anglaise accompaniment to the pie that involves crystalized ginger, perhaps that led to the crystalized ginger in the crust? ::shrug::.
posted by amileighs at 6:19 PM on November 15, 2012

Response by poster: That's it, thisclickableme! Thank you!!!
posted by k8lin at 6:27 PM on November 15, 2012