Deep Down Good Carrot Pie

Happy Holidays!
I fucking LOVE the holidays. Thanksgiving and Christmas. Its the best time of the year. Now that I am married and Mr. Maker and I have our own house I can go all out. So I predict a plethora of holiday cooking/crafting related posted until the new year.

And here is a gift. 
Years and years ago my great aunt Betty passed away and my father flew to Florida to settle her business. She was poor lived modestly and had never married or had children so there wasn't anyone else to go through her personal things. She was active in her church and dad donated most of her belongings to them. I remember distinctly the night he returned he had an old cardboard box and he said told me that she hadn't had much of worth but when he saw these he thought of me. It was a box of hundreds and hundreds of hand written recipes!

I haven't made them all but this is my favorite. Deep Down Good Carrot Pie
Rumor has it one year they didn't have any sweet potatoes so Betty invented this delicacy. It's now a family tradition. I like it better than sweet potato pie.

Use it, print it, share it...but obey these rules:
Always call it Deep Down Good Carrot Pie (cuz that's it's name)
and
Under no circumstances are you to profit monetarily from this recipe (if you so much as sell a piece a hundred angels of justice and karma will haunt you for the rest of your days).

Whew, with that here it is a picture of the original recipe handwritten before I was born and made a million (or so) times. Enjoy.

And this year I topped mine with candied ginger and carrots.
Basically I sliced carrots as thick as I could in 1/4 cup water and 1/4 cup sugar. I added slices of ginger to flavor them.

I took them one by one and dusted them in more sugar and laid them flat to dry.

And I rolled them into rosettes and topped the pie.
It was so good. They added a gingery crunch to the pie and everyone raved!