Cream Pie

Ingredients

• Put one pint of milk in the double boiler
• the yolks of two eggs
• one-half cupful of sugar
• two tablespoonfuls of flour or corn starch
• Flavor with lemon or vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Boil milk, beat together yolks, sugar, and flour, stir into boiling milk, cook until thick.

2. 2

   Line pie plate with puff paste, bake first, pour custard into baked crust, spread frosting made of beaten egg whites and powdered sugar, return to oven to brown slightly.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The century cook book (1894) by Jennie A. Hansey, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Pie. One pint of stewed apples, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two beaten eggs, a little grated nutmeg, and half a glass of wine; mix together and bake with two crusts. Custard and Cocoanut Pie. Line your pie plate with pie crust, and fill it with a mixture of three beaten eggs, one pint of milk, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar ; flavor with a little mace, and bake it in a medium hot oven. For cocoanut pie use the same custard as for custard pie, but add grated cocoanut, either fresh or prepared. Chocolate Cream Pie. One quart of milk, one coffee cupful of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of flour, one bar of bitter chocolate grated, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, the yolks of five beaten eggs. Boil the milk with the choc- plate in it; mix the flour and sugar together, and stir into the boiling milk; then add butter and yolks of eggs, and take the mixture off the fire immediately. Bake in thin crusts of i6o Pies puff paste. Whip the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth while the pies are baking, add a cupful of sugar, and flavor with vanilla. Spread over the hot pies, and put back into the oven until slightly brown. Sour Milk Pie. One cupful of sour milk, one cupful of sugar, one cupful of raisins stoned and chopped, two eggs, all kinds of spice. Bake between two crusts. Cream Pie. Put one pint of milk in the double boiler, and let come to a boil. Beat together the yolks of two eggs, one-half cupful of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of flour or corn starch; stir this into the boiling milk, and cook until thick. Flavor with lemon or vanilla

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