baked whole pumpkin

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 small sugar pumpkin
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 tablespoon butter

Recipe

• preheat the oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• cut the lid off the pumpkin and remove the seeds.
• combine the eggs, whipping cream, brown sugar, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. pour mixture into the pumpkin shell and top the butter. replace lid on pumpkin and place in a baking pan.
• bake at 350 degrees f (175 degrees c) for 1 to 1-1/2 hours or until mixture has set like a custard. serve right from the pumpkin at the table, scraping some of the meat from the pumpkin wall with each serving.