Alto, I read your note and recognized my mother. The pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving was "home made" because she did not buy it from the store bakery. She did however buy the pie crust in the freezer section and the pumpkin filling came from a can. She put the components together and baked it so it was homemade. 10 years ago, she would have started with crust from scratch and cooked the pumpkin filling herself.