Pudding Pies

Vanilla Cream Pie

Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch or
1/2 cup all purpose flour
3 cups milk
4 eggs
1 tbsp. butter
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Baked pastry shell
Meringue For filling, in a medium saucepan combine sugar and cornstarch or flour. Gradually stir in milk. Cook and stir over medium to high heat till mix is thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat; cook and stir for 2 min. more. Remove from heat.
Separate egg yolks from whites; set whites aside for meringue
Beat egg yolks lightly with a fork. Gradually stir in about 1 cup of the hot filling into yolks. Return all to saucepan; bring to a gentle biol. Cook and stir 2 min. more. Remove from heat. Stir in butter and vanilla. Pour the hot filling into pastry . Evenly spread meringue over hot filling; seal to edge. Bake in 350 oven for 15 min. Cool, and chill to store. Serves 8.
Coconut cream pie:
Prepare as above, except stir in 1 cup flaked coconut with butter and vanilla. Sprinkle another 1/3 cup flaked coconut over meringue before baking.
Banana cream pie:
Prepare as above, except before adding filling, spread 3 med. bananas, sliced into the bottom of the baked pastry shell .
Dark chocolate cream pie:
Prepare as above, except increase the sugar to 1 cup. Stir in 3 squares unsweetened chocolate, chopped, with the milk.
Milk chocolate cream pie:
Prepare as above, except stir in 3 squares semi-sweet chocolate, chopped with the milk.

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