Custard Pie

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups milk, scalded
• 1 9-inch unbaked pastry shell
• Dash of nutmeg

Steps

1. Mix the eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla and milk and pour into the pastry shell.
2. Sprinkle nutmeg on top.
3. Bake 5 minutes at 475 degrees, then 10 to 15 minutes at 425 degrees. Check the oven during the last 5 minutes of baking so it doesn’t overbake.

Notes

Newspaper clipping pasted on Rosie Lee’s “Pie” index card. Part of the clipping is cut off: the contributor’s name at the bottom is trimmed away; only “…West Point, Ill.” is partly visible.

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Rosie Lee’s original recipe card

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