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Cream Pies -- One Recipe, Five Options




Source of Recipe


Marla


Recipe Introduction


Of course, you can always get un-traditional and start coming up with new
variations. How about tropical flavors like fresh pineapple and mango, or
perhaps a Peaches and Cream Pie, or maybe a Chocolate Banana Cream? Once
you
read the basic instructions, you'll get endless ideas of how to vary them.


List of Ingredients




The Basic Recipe

3/4 C sugar
1/3 C flour
1/4 tsp. salt
2 C whole milk
2 eggs or 3 egg yolks
1 T. butter
1 tsp. vanilla

1 baked and cooled 9 in. pie shell

whipped cream to top pie







Recipe



The Basic Instructions

In a medium saucepan, mix sugar, flour and salt. Stir in 1 cup of milk, mix
until smooth, and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.
Continue to stir until smooth and thickened, about 2 minutes, then remove
from heat.

Beat the eggs or egg yolks with the remaining cup of milk. Temper the egg
mixture with a small amount of the slightly cooled milk mixture then blend
this into the larger saucepan with the cooling milk mixture.

Return saucepan to the heat and bring to a boil again, stirring constantly,
lower heat and simmer until mixture thickens a bit more, about 1 minute.

Remove from the heat and stir in butter and vanilla. Cool slightly and pour
into the baked pie shell.

Cool completely then cover top of pie with sweetened whipped cream or
whipped
topping.

Cream Pie Variations

Chocolate Cream Pie
Make basic filling and add 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips to hot
filling
in pan. Stir until chocolate melts completely.

Banana Cream Pie
Make basic filling, cool. Slice 2 or 3 bananas into bottom of pie shell.
Pour
cooled basic filling (or chocolate filling) on top.

Coconut Cream Pie
Stir 1 cup flaked coconut into basic filling just before pouring into pie
shell. Sprinkled toasted coconut on top of the whipped cream for a
beautiful
and tasty presentation.

Butterscotch Cream Pie
Substitute 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar instead of white sugar in
basic
filling recipe, and increase the butter to 3 tablespoons. Cook in the same
manner as the basic filling.

Eggnog Cream Pie
Stir in 1/4 tsp. nutmeg into the basic mixture. Sprinkle a small amount of
nutmeg on the whipped cream.
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