Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

9-inch baked pastry shell
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 1/2 c. milk
3 eggs, separated
1 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. sugar

Preparation

Combine sugar, salt and cornstarch in saucepan.
Stir in milk and cook over medium-low heat until slightly thickened.
Combine a little of the hot mixture with beaten egg yolk.
Return to hot mixture and cook until thickened.
Stir in vanilla and butter. Pour into baked pastry shell.
Top cooled filling with meringue made by beating egg whites with 1/2 cup sugar.
Brown in oven at 425\u00b0.