Banana Cream Pie Or Coconut Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 9 inch pie shell baked
3 Tbsp. butter or margarine
6 Tbsp. corn starch
1 c. plus 2 Tbsp. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
3 c. milk
3 egg yolks, slightly beaten (save egg white for meringue)
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Melt butter, blend in corn starch, sugar and salt. Gradually add milk. Heat to boiling over direct heat. Stir constantly to keep it from sticking or burning. Pour into eggs stirring rapidly. Pour back into the pan. Continue cooking for two minutes, adding 1 c. coconut and vanilla (if you want coconut pie, Omit coconut if you want banana cream). When pudding has cooled, layer in pie shell with bananas and pudding for banana cream. If you have made coconut, cool down and pour into baked pie shell.