Cream Pie

Ingredients

• One pint of cream
• 2 pints new milk
• 2 coffee cups granulated sugar
• % cup butter
• % coffee cup cornstarch
• 6 eggs
• 1 dessertspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Put cream and milk in double boiler; when boiling, pour over beaten eggs and sugar, stir well and return to saucepan.

2. 2

   Add cornstarch dissolved in some milk.

3. 3

   Cook until consistency of mush, remove from fire, add butter and vanilla.

4. 4

   Fill 3 baked crusts with the mixture.

5. 5

   Beat 6 unbeaten whites with 3 small teacups granulated sugar until very stiff, beat in vanilla.

6. 6

   Meringue pies, set in oven and cook a chestnut brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Pie. One pint of cream, 2 pints new milk, 2 coffee cups granulated sugar, % cup butter, % coffee cup cornstarch, 6 eggs, 1 dessertspoon vanilla

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