Pie

[HollyGolightly]

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 1¼ cups graham crackers
• ¼ cup melted butter
• ½ cup sugar
• dash of cinnamon
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• Filling:
• 2½ cups of milk
• ½ cup of white sugar
• ¼ cup of cornstarch
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 tsp vanilla
• pinch of salt
• 
  
• Meringue Topping:
• 3 egg whites
• ¼ cup of sugar
• ¼ tsp of cream of tartar

Instructions

1. Mix all the topping ingredients together, save about 2 tbsp to the side and press the rest into a 10 inch pie plate, in the bottom and up the sides. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes..
2. Combine the filling ingredients together and cook on a medium heat until it boils and thickens, making sure to stir constantly! Set aside to cool while you make the meringue.
3. Beat the meringue ingredients together until they form stiff peaks.
4. Pour the filling into the crust and top with the meringue, making beautiful little spikes that will brown up all lovely on top! Sprinkle the rest of the crumbs on the top and slide into a 350 degree oven.
5. Bake until the meringue browns like below, around 10 minutes but watch it carefully! All ovens are different!
6. Cool in the fridge and eat the same day. This isn’t a pie that is going to last a few days, meringue topped pies get slimy between the layers. This is best made mere hours before serving.

I am going to try this-I have bad luck with meringue, but this looks delicious!

 

[HollyGolightly]

My Mom used to have a hard time making a good pie crust - she just did not have the light touch needed for it. Dad used to joke about bringing out the chainsaw to cut the crust when she attempted to make pie!

You know what? The recipe I posted sounds a bit like your fave - coconut cream pie (but without the coconut mixed into the filling).

I just buy the crust - I've tried to make my own a couple of times, nah - way too much work for me.

Here's one I love: Miss Mary's Cherry Pie

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Cherry and Lemon Meringue! All others are okay IMO.

 

[danie]

I make a really good French Silk pie (very easy recipe too). I love to make pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. My secret ingredient: molasses.
I just use the Pillsbury ready-made pie crusts...they're very good.

 

[skimom2]

My favorites are pecan and strawberry. A tiny slice of Neesy's Flapper Pie sounds lovely, though (too rich-looking for more than a tiny slice)

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Cherry and lemon meringue are my favorites.

Then there's pot pie........

 

[staropeace]

Every pie contest I have entered, I have won a ribbon. I make a very lite crust. My fav is Pennsylvania Dutch apple pie...with the custard baked in it.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Blueberry pie, anyone?

Sorry, couldn't help myself

 

[Neesy]

Every pie contest I have entered, I have won a ribbon. I make a very lite crust. My fav is Pennsylvania Dutch apple pie...with the custard baked in it.

You ever make a nice meat pie? Andy does a nice steak and kidney pie

 

[staropeace]

I do a nice chicken or beef pot pie. My mince pies are more french than brit though.

 

[Neesy]

I do a nice chicken or beef pot pie. My mince pies are more french than brit though.

What is the difference? (No, seriously I am not trying to be funny). Andy uses so much French terminology when talking about ingredients so I am just curious.

 

[The Nameless]

Have y'all heard of Flapper Pie?

That sounds so much like an inuendo from a "Carry On" film . It sure looks nice though. I don't eat pie too much, my Mum makes nice meat & potato pies and chicken & bacon in white sauce pies.

 

[The Nameless]

I don't think pumpkin pie is all that popular over in the UK - they eat different stuff than us. I LOVE pumpkin pie myself.

Another thing I like a lot is corn on the cob - some old Scottish lady said to me "Corn? we feed that to the cows!" only she pronounced it "kews"

Ha ha, we do eat corn on the cob, it's not as common over here though. You are right, we do eat differently here - a pie in the UK is usually filled with meat and is savoury. Anything sweet or fruity generally gets branded a cake. One thing that is massively different over here compared to it's watered down American counterpart is mustard. Put English mustard on your hotdog and it'll blow your tongue off.

You ever make a nice meat pie? Andy does a nice steak and kidney pie

Eeeeeeeewwwwwww! I detest steak and kidney pie, how anyone can eat kidney is beyond me. I can't stomach the idea of eating any internal organs - heart, liver, kidney - they all stink too when they're being cooked - especially kidney, that stinks of p*ss.

 

[GNTLGNT]

What is the difference? (No, seriously I am not trying to be funny). Andy uses so much French terminology when talking about ingredients so I am just curious.

...she minces up a Frenchman rather than a Britisher....duhhhhhh!....

 

[GNTLGNT]

especially kidney, that stinks of p*ss.

...hmmmm, I wonder how's come????.....

 

[Bryan James]

 

[The Nameless]

...hmmmm, I wonder how's come????.....

Yeah, I know why, but that just begs the question - why would you eat it? Why would you eat the organ that turns an animal's toxins into piss, and holds that smell while you cook it?

 

[Bryan James]

I like meat pies.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I like meat pies.

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Of course you do. Because....There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, / And it's filled with people who are filled with sh*t, / And the vermin of the world inhabit it, / But not for loooong!.....right?

 

[danie]

Just don't eat the pie offered by this guy: