Colonel Sanders’ Kentucky Chess Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 prepared pie crust, unbaked
4 egg yolks
1 cup cream
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar well.
Add other ingredients.
Pour into unbaked crust.
Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
Make meringue of egg whites stiffly beaten, with equal amount of sugar and small amount of nutmeg (equal amounts mean equal measure of sugar and egg whites).
To keep meringue from weeping, beat whites until foamy, then add sugar slowly.
Beat stiff.
Cover filling with meringue.
Brown in moderate oven.
Yields one 9\" pie.