Banana Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 c. sugar
6 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
2 1/2 c. milk
2 egg yolks or 1 whole egg
1 Tbsp. butter
1/2 tsp. lemon or vanilla extract
3 ripe bananas
1 baked 9-inch pie shell
1/2 c. shredded coconut
1/2 c. heavy cream, whipped

Preparation

Mix sugar, flour and salt in top part of double boiler. Gradually stir in milk and cook over boiling water until thickened, stirring constantly.
Cover and cook for 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally.
Beat egg and add a small amount of milk mixture.
Return to boiler and cook for 2 minutes over hot, not boiling, water, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and add butter and extract; cool.
Slice 2 bananas into baked shell.
Pour cooked mixture over bananas at once.
Chill for at least 1 hour. Put coconut in shallow pan and toast in oven at 350\u00b0 for 10 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring occasionally.
Cool.