Coconut Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/3 c. sifted flour
2/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 c. scalded milk
3 slightly beaten egg yolks
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. coconut

Preparation

Mix the flour, sugar and salt.
Gradually add milk.
Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils.
Cook 2 minutes and remove from heat.
Add a small amount of this hot mixture to the egg yolks and stir, then return this egg mixture back to the original mixture and stir.
Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Stir in butter, vanilla and coconut and pour into baked pastry shell.
While this cools, prepare meringue.