1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp flour
1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
3 cup milk
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 9 unbaked pie shell
Directions
Combine sugar, flour, salt and eggs and mix until smooth. Heat milk to
boiling point. Add 1 cup hot milk to egg mixture. Pour that into the
remaining hot milk.
Pour into unbaked pie shell. Sprinkle nutmeg over top. Bake at 350
degrees F. for 45-60 minutes.
Source: The Best Of Amish Cooking by Phyllis Pellman Good Submitted by
Michael Hatala, Prodigy Food & Wine Board
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Amish; Dessert; Pie
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to trace the history of written cooking instructions far back into distant history, in fact as far back into history as the early Egyptians, and maybe even further. In practice though, in the main part, these old records were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to academics are some tablets in ancient Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. Closer to modern times, we find some books dating from the 1300s ; a cookery book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books have no connection with the indian food that appears on menues today, but rather descriptions of the types of food on the menus of the rich and wealthy people of the time. During the next few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy strove to serve the best banquets, and consequentially chefs and their recipe collections were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century that haute cuisine and recipe publications really came of age. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to collecting, testing, and writing down recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cook books were greatly in demand due to better eduction, leisure time and having more disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Amish Custard Pie recipe.
