Pineapple Meringue Pie

Ingredients

• Mix one-half cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• two tablespoons cornstarch
• one and one-half cups hot milk
• two egg yolks
• one cup well drained pineapple
• one-half teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, salt, cornstarch, and slowly add hot milk.

2. 2

   Cook in double boiler until thick (about forty minutes), pour this into two egg yolks, return to boiler and cook until eggs thicken (about three minutes).

3. 3

   Cool and add pineapple and vanilla.

4. 4

   Pour into baked crust and cover with meringue, made of two stiffly beaten whites of egg and two tablespoons powdered sugar.

5. 5

   Brown quickly in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Central cook book (1924) by N.C.). Circle Number Three Central Methodist Church (Raleigh, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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