Egg Custard Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 eggs
1/4 c. plus 2 Tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 c. milk
nutmeg
1 (9-inch) pie crust, unbaked

Preparation

Examine sourwood blooms for dirt and insects. Remove leaves. Pack a 1-quart bowl full of blooms and pour 1 1/2 cups boiling water over them. Cover at once.
Let stand not over 1 minute. Drain and strain through a cloth. Add 1 1/2 cups sugar for each cup of water.
To 6 cups of the water after it has begun to thicken (after cooking slowly), add a small piece of alum about the size of a dime. Crush alum.
Thicken to desired texture, letting it boil down.