Custard Pie
Arwilda kept three different recipes with this title.
Eight-inch scalded-milk recipe
Clear Tote red card
From mom, role uncertain.
Ingredients
- 2 cups milk, scalded (for 8" pie)
- 3 eggs (beat good)
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- ½ teasp. nutmeg
- one 8-inch pie shell
Directions
- mix
- Pour into scalded milk
- Put in pie shell
- Bake at 325°
Timing: 35-40 min.
Temperature: milk, scalded; pour into scalded milk; bake at 325°
Equipment: milk-scalding saucepan, mixing bowl, egg beater or whisk, measuring tools, mixing utensil, 8-inch pie pan and shell, and oven
As written
mom
Arwilda’s changes
- Added “1/4 tsp. salt”
- Added “1 tsp. vanilla”
Nine-inch 425-degree recipe
Decorative Tin PDF card
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- ¾ C sugar
- ¼ t salt
- 2 ½ C milk
- 2 t vanilla
- 9" unbaked pie shell
- nutmeg
Directions
- Beat eggs slightly, add sugar, salt, milk, Vanilla.
- Pour in pie shell.
- sprinkle w nutmeg.
- Bake in 425° till knife comes out clean.
Timing: till knife comes out clean
Temperature: 425°
Equipment: 9-inch pie shell; knife; oven
Three-cup scalded-milk recipe
Blue Binder handwritten page
Ingredients
- 3 cup milk (scalded)
- 5 eggs beat good
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 teaspoon nut meg
- put in pie shell
Directions
- Mix
- pour into scalded milk
- put in pie shell
- Bake 325° 25-40 min
Timing: 25-40 min
Temperature: scalded milk; 325 degrees
Equipment: pie shell; 325-degree baking oven
As written
mom' [possible faint s] / Very good.
Compare the cards
Milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, and shell size
- Decorative Tin PDF card
- 2 1/2 cups milk, 3 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla, unmeasured nutmeg, and a 9-inch shell.
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- 3 cups scalded milk, 5 eggs, 1 1/3 cups sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, and an unspecified shell.
- Clear Tote red card
- 2 cups scalded milk, 3 eggs, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, and an 8-inch shell.
Milk treatment, oven setting, and endpoint
- Decorative Tin PDF card
- No scalding step; bake at 425 degrees until a knife comes out clean.
- Blue Binder handwritten page
- Pour into scalded milk and bake at 325 degrees for 25 to 40 minutes.
- Clear Tote red card
- Pour into scalded milk and bake at 325 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.
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