Butterscotch Pie

Ingredients



1 cup each brown sugar, milk

1 tbsp. flour

1/4 tsp. salt

1 pastry-lined pan

2 tbsp. butter or margarine

1 egg, separated

1 tsp. each vanilla, sugar

Directions

Cook brown sugar and butter together until soft. Beat egg yolk

well and add to flour, then add milk. Beat until very smooth.

Combine with sugar mixture and cook until the mixture thickens.

Remove from heat, add salt and flavoring. Pour into a pastry-lined

pan. Bake at 450º F. for 10 minutes; reduce the heat to 350º F. and

bake 30 minutes. Cover pie with meringue made by beating egg white stiff

and adding 1 tsp. sugar. Return pie to oven to brown meringue.

Makes 8 servings.

Butterscotch Pie

1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup brown sugar

Mix together in cast iron skillet. Boil until sugar is
dissolved.

In a bowl, mix:
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup flour
1 T. cornstarch (and a little more)
1 cup brown sugar

Alternately add this mixture and 2 2/3 cups milk to mixture in
skillet with skillet on heat. Mix well after each addition.
Cook and stir until thick (4-6 minutes). Remove pan from heat.

Beat 4 egg yolks. Add some of hot mixture to eggs and mix
well. Put egg mixture back in skillet. Put back on heat and
blend thoroughly. Add 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp butter.
Remove from heat. Stir until butter melts. Pour into baked
pie shell.
Top with meringue or sweetened whipped cream.

Meringue

In a small saucepan, mix the following:
1/4 cup sugar
1 T. cornstarch
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup water

Boil and cool completely. Beat 4 egg whites and 1/4 cup sugar.
Add 1/2 tsp vanilla and cooled mixture form saucepan.
Beat until stiff. Spread on pie and broil quickly until
light brown. Refrigerate until completely chilled. Store in
refrigerator.

Pie Crust
1 cup flour
1/3 cup Crisco
1/2 tsp salt

Cut Crisco into flour and salt. Add ice water one T at a time
until dough forms. Roll out and fit into greased pie plate.
Prick bottom and sides.
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes or until light brown.

 

Grandma's Butterscotch Pie



1 cup packed light brown sugar

4 tablespoons cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups milk

2 egg yolks, beaten

1 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked



In top of double boiler, combine brown sugar, cornstarch, salt and milk.

Stir and keep stirring until it thickens. Mix in egg yolks, stir and keep

cooking until it thickens. Remove from heat, and add butter or

margarine and

vanilla. Keep stirring. Pour into cooked pie crust. Bake at 400

degrees for

5 minutes or until brown.