This pie was a surprise co-winner with King Arthur’s “Golden Pumpkin Pie”. It shares the same crust (attributed by Richard Sax to Nick Malgieri) as Richard Sax’s “Best-Ever Pumpkin Pie”, but was ranked significantly higher on crust texture than Sax’s pie despite not having been blind-baked. Although this recipe is called “Honey Pumpkin Pie”, honey is only one of three sweeteners in this pie (the others being granulated sugar and light brown sugar, in equal amounts by volume with the honey), and the two tasters who evaluated this pie both ranked it as too sweet despite giving it top overall marks. It was tied for first also on the spices scale, where it ranked equal with the King Arthur pie and with Sue Felshin’s “Scratch Pumpkin Pie”. It also received the highest possible rating (5.0) for filling texture. One caution is that only two tasters evaluated this pie, so there is a great deal of uncertainty in all of the rankings.