My family always used the "World's Best Pumpkin Pie" recipe from the Oct/Nov 1979 (I think) Countryside for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we lost the recipe in a house fire. It had a caramelized nut topping and some sort of liqueur in the filling. If anyone has it, could you please post it or send it to me via e-mail? Thanks!

-- Alice Torbert (megatron_revised@yahoo.com), November 21, 2001

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My sweet potatoe pie has a nice topping. 1/2 cup melted butter, 2/3 cup brown sugar packed, 1/3 cup flour and 1 cup chopped pecans. Crumble this mixture over the potatoe mixture (pumpkin would be fine also) and Bake. I would love to know the liqueur filling if somebody has it! I also love that this California transplant has a better sweet potatoe pie than my local East Texas friends do! :) Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), November 21, 2001.

I would love a recipe for Sweet Potato Pie, could you post it? and the pumpkin pie recipe sounds yummy I hope someone has it too!! Thanks, Happy Thanksgiving! LQ LOL(Laugh out Loud) A Turkey's Thanksgiving Poem When I was a young turkey, new to the coop, My big brother Mike took me out on the stoop, Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow, And he told me there was something that I had to know; His look and his tone I will always remember, When he told me of the horrors of..... Black November "Come about August, now listen to me, Each day you'll get six meals instead of just three. "And soon you'll be thick, where once you were thin, and you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin; "And then one morning, when you're warm in your bed, In'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head; "Then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald 'n pink, And scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink; "And then comes the worst part" he said not bluffing, "She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing." Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat, I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat, And decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked, I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked; I began a new diet of nuts and granola, High-roughage salads, juice and diet cola; And as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes, I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes; I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half, And tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed; But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath, As they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death; And sure enough when Black November rolled around, I was the last turkey left in the entire compound; So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap; I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap; She held me today, while sewing and humming, And smiled at me and said "Christmas is coming!"

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), November 22, 2001.

11 pm and the pecan and sweet potatoe pies just came out of the oven! YUM! Mash a large can of sweet potatoes, or boil yams till very soft and mash about 3 cups of them. In a big bowl combine 1 cup of sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Add the potatoes to the mixture and stir, I use my braun mixer to get all the lumps out, though some like the lumps in. Pour into a pie shell and top with the crumbly topping above. Bake for about 30 minutes at 350, add foil around the outside edge and back for another 30 minutes. It will appear not set in the middle, but it is. The crumbly pecan topping is also excellent on apple pie! Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), November 22, 2001.

I have made this recipe for years and years and it is always a hit at the holidays. I use the exact same recipe for my sweet potatos that go into the oven to bake, but for the topping my recipe calls for 3/4 cup crushed corn flakes, the brown sugar,pecans, butter and cinnamon. It is so yummy I am craving it right now!!! I can't wait. ~Karole

-- Karole (Biz3boymom@aol.ocm), November 22, 2001.

thanks, Happy Thanksgiving! LQ

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), November 22, 2001.

I have a recipe for a crustless pumkin pie which is as good as the kind with crust and is low fat to boot if any one would be interested. also have a recipe for a low fAt [ 2 grams instead of 25].Turimusu which is to die for good.

-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), November 22, 2001.