Ingredients
3 each egg yolk
2 cup sugar
1 qt milk
4 tbsp flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 each cocoanut, whole, grated
3 each egg white, beaten
1 *pastry
Directions
To the beaten egg yolks, add the sugar and milk, and cook all
together. Add the flour which has been mixed with a little cold water
and cook until mixture thickens. Add vanilla and let mixture cool.
Mix half of the cocoanut with the custard filling and pour into baked
pie shells. Beat the whites of eggs until stiff and frothy, add 3
Tbsp sugar and spread on top of pies, sprinkle with remaining
cocoanut. Brown in 325-F oven about 10 minutes. This recipe will make
2 medium pies. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old
Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
Servings: 1 servings
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