This may seem an odd dish to have Christmas Day as its national day, given all the other foods associated with this day, such as turkey, Christmas pudding and fruitcake, but pumpkins are used in many different recipes in the US and are native to North America, and are popular during the Thanksgiving and Christmas season.
Although the harvesting season for pumpkins - a type of squash - was earlier in the year, pumpkin pie is rarely made from the raw pumpkin itself, as this is certainly a harder way of doing it. The pie is made using a pie shell and rarely has a top crust. The interior filling is a pumpkin based custard that has been flavoured with spices, with cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg being the most common. When making pumpkin pie, many will normally use pre-made commercially available pumpkin pie filling, which comes with the spices included in it. Using a pre-made pie shell and pre-made filling certainly makes this an easy dish to prepare.
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