Cocoanut Pie

Ingredients

• Grate a cocoanut
• an equal weight of sugar
• the beaten yolks of four eggs
• a cupful of milk
• a tablespoonful of cornstarch
• the whipped whites of four eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mix grated cocoanut with sugar and yolks.

2. 2

   Scald milk and cocoanut milk, add cornstarch, then combine with cocoanut mixture and whipped whites.

3. 3

   Bake in pie crust until firm.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Luncheons (1902) by Mary Ronald, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a tablespoonful of cornstarch diluted with a little water. Stir until the water boils, then add half a cupful of mo- lasses, half a tablespoonful of butter, a saltspoonful of salt, and a pint of chopped cranberries. Cook for a few minutes, then turn it into the pastry and bake with or with- out an upper crust. COCOANUT PIE Grate a cocoanut. Mix it with an equal weight of sugar and the beaten yolks of four eggs. Mix together and scald a cupful of milk and the milk of the cocoanut. Add a table- spoonful of cornstarch diluted with a little water, and stir it until it is a little thickened. Remove it from the fire, add the cocoanut mixture, and lastly the whipped whites of four eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.