Dessert Recipes - Vanilla Cream Pie Recipe

Ingredients                

• 2/3 cup sugar

• 1/4 cup Argo or Kingsford's Com Starch

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 2 1/2 cups milk

• 3 eggs, separated

• 1 tsp vanilla

• 1 baked (9-inch) pastry shell

• 6 Tbs sugar

Make 8 servings

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Method:

1. In 2-quart saucepan mix together 2/3 cup sugar, cornstarch and salt. Gradually stir in milk until smooth. Stir in egg yolks, slightly beaten. Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium-low heat and boil 1 minute.

2. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Cover surface with waxed paper or plastic wrap. Cool slightly (no longer than 1 hour).

3. Turn filling into pastry shell. In small bowl with mixer at high speed beat egg whites until frothy peaks form.

4. Gradually beat in 6 Tbs sugar until stiff peaks form. Spread over filling sealing to edge of crust.

5. Bake in 350°F. oven 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool at room temperature away from drafts.

Banana Cream Pie: Follow recipe for Vanilla Cream Pie. Fill pastry shell with small amount of cooled filling. Arrange 2 bananas, sliced, over filling and cover with remaining filling.

Coconut Cream Pie: Follow recipe for Vanilla Cream Pie. Fold 3/4 cup flaked coconut into cooled filling and sprinkle meringue with Y4 cup flaked coconut before baking. Bake in 425°F oven 5 minutes or until meringue browns and coconut is toasted.

Chocolate Cream Pie: Follow recipe for Vanilla Cream Pie adding 2 squares (1 oz each) unsweetened chocolate to milk mixture before cooking.