Recipe: Classic pumpkin pie

If Thanksgiving is the classic American food holiday (or maybe it's the only American food holiday?), pumpkin pie is the classic ending for it. And while you can find all kinds of variations that take the basic pie in different directions — many of them quite delicious, to be sure — there still is no beating the original, as created here by former Times Test Kitchen manager Donna Deane.

November 17, 2011