Year of the Pie - Pie #9 Custard Pie

Week # 9 - Custard Pie!

Well, as you can tell, I didn't get the crust shield put on in time, but it is not the end of our little pie world. It just makes things more interesting.

As usual, I have never made a custard pie before. I put the crust together and my daughter put the filling together and in to the oven it went. After having made a couple cream pies I assumed you would cook this custard on the stove as well. But that was not to be the case. Even though I feel like this custard pie is a cousin to the banana cream pie we made today as well, you make it totally different. For the banana cream pie, we blind-baked the crust and cooked the filling on the stove. For the custard pie, we baked crust and filling at the same time.
Pick your favorite 9-inch crust recipe and then use this filling: (it's from Betty)

4 eggs
2/3 C. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1/4 t. ground nutmeg
2 & 2/3 C. of milk
1 t. vanilla

Beat the eggs slightly and then add the rest of the ingredients. Pour into the crust and bake 20 minutes at 450.
Then, reduce the heat to 350 and bake about 15 minutes longer. Poke it with a cake tester or knife about halfway between center and the edge. When it comes out clean...out comes the pie.

O.K. So, we took these pies (Custard & Banana Cream) to church this evening. See, here I am carrying them through our yard to church, which is just behind those evergreens in the back ground.

Here they are at church.
Banana Cream on the left and Custard on the right.

An empty banana cream pie plate.


My sweetie finishing off the last piece of custard pie right out of the pie plate.
You gotta love him.

When Maggie tasted the custard pie she made a face and said.."Oh, it is too squirmy". That translates to a from her.
The other two of 'we three', gave it

Thanks for stopping by.

Until Next Time