Coconut Custard Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pt. milk
5 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. flour
1 c. coconut
3 egg yolks

Preparation

Line pie plate with pastry.
Build up edges. Brush bottom with melted shortening and dust with a little flour to prevent custard from soaking in. Scald and cool milk.
Mix together sugar, flour and salt.
Add beaten eggs.
Next, add milk and flavoring. Stir in 3/4 cup coconut.
Turn into pie plate and bake at 450\u00b0 for 15 minutes until pastry begins to brown. Sprinkle over top of custard the remaining 1/4 cup coconut. Reduce heat to 325\u00b0 and return to oven and bake until custard is set, 30 minutes.