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COCONUT CREAM PIE Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Pastry for 9 inch pie, baked and cooled.
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn starch
1/4 tsp. salt
3 cups milk
4 eggs, separated (save whites)
3 tbsp. butter
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/3 cups flaked coconut

MERINGUE

4 egg whites
1/3 tsp. cream of tartar
8 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:
Directions:
In sauce pan combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir in milk. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Reduce heat, cook and stir 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Beat yolks. Stir 1 cup hot mixture into yolks. Return egg mixture to sauce pan. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in butter and vanilla. Stir in 1 cup coconut. Pour hot mixture into shell. Top with meringue, sprinkle with remaining coconut and bake in 425º oven until meringue is brown.
For meringue; beat egg whites, cream of tartar and vanilla until frothy. Gradually beat in sugar 1 tbsp. at a time. Continue beating until mixture is stiff and glossy.

 

 

 

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