Vanilla cream pie with variations
Vanilla cream pie with variations recipe in the pie category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 3 cup milk
- 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Recipe method:
- Mix sugar, salt, cornstarch and flour in a saucepan.
- Stir in gradually the milk.
- Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils.
- Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat.
- Stir a little of the mixture into egg yolks.
- Blend into hot mixture in saucepan.
- Boil 1 minute more, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat.
- Blend in butter and vanilla extract.
- Cool, stirring occasionally.
- Pour into cooled baked pie shell.
- Chill for 2 hours.
- Coconut pie: Use vanilla cream pie recipe except fold in 3/4 cup moist, shredded coconut just before pouring into pie shell.
- Chocolate pie: Use vanilla cream pie recipe except use 1 1/2 cups sugar and add 3 ounces or 3 squares chocolate which have been melted over hot water.
- Banana cream pie: Use vanilla cream pie recipe. Slice 3 large bananas and place in bottom of pie shell before adding cream pie mixture.
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