Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. flour or 1/4 c. cornstarch
2/3 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
2 c. milk, scalded
3 slightly beaten egg yolks
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 baked 9-inch pastry shell

Preparation

Mix flour, sugar and salt and gradually add hot milk.
Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils.
Cook 2 minutes; remove from heat.
Add butter and vanilla; cool slightly.
Pour into pastry shell.
Cool.
Cover with meringue made of egg whites and 6 tablespoons of sugar.