Coconut Pie

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound of butter
• 1/2 pound of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of rich milk
• 1 cocoanut grated

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and milk soaked with coconut.

2. 2

   Cook before putting in pastry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Blue grass cook book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pound of butter, 1^ pounds of flour, ■J pint of ice water. Wash the butter carefully and squeeze out all the water. Divide in 6 parts. Separate the flour, leaving ^ pound to sprinkle with. Take the 1 pound of flour and 1 piece of butter and mix with the ice water, using a knife for the purpose, and handle as little as possible. Roll the paste from you and spread with the butter. Add | pound of flour in 3 rollings. Set in cool place for 1 or 2 hours. 202 PASTRY When making pies, cut off only enough for one pie at a time, so as not to roll more than once after taking off the ice. CHOCOLATE PIE (No. 1) Mrs. James E. Clay 4 eggs, 2 cups of sugar, ^ cup butter, 1 cup of grated chocolate, 1 cup of cream. Flavor with vanilla. Mix and cook in sauce- pan till it begins to thicken. Cook crust slightly, fill with the mixture and cook in oven till stiff. Cover with meringue. CHOCOLATE PIE (No. 2) Mrs. Strauder Goff Stir the yolks of two well-beaten eggs, ^ of a cake of chocolate and a teacup of sugar into nearly a pint of new milk. Set over the fire and stir till it comes to a boil, then add 2 tablespoons of corn- starch dissolved in milk and | cup of butter. Let it cook till it thickens, stirring all the time. Then pour over the beaten whites of the eggs, set back 203 THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK on the stove for a few minutes, till the whites are cooked, and add a teaspoon of vanilla after taking oiF. The pies made with this filling should be made with a top crust and are better served cold with cream, either plain or whipped. It makes a par- ticularly attractive dessert made in little individual pie pans and served with frozen whipped cream. COCOANUT PIE E. D. P. ■| pound of butter, ^ pound of sugar, creamed with butter, 3 eggs, beaten well, 1 cup of rich milk, in which cocoanut has been soaked, 1 cocoanut grated

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