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- From: hartlemb@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Michelle Hartle)
- Subject: Butterscotch Pie
- Message-ID: <1995Jan20.210136.19957@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 21:01:36 GMT
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- In response to a request awhile back, this pie is from the Farm Journal's
- Complete Pie Cookbook (1965). It's a great pie, and well worth all that
- 'stirring constantly'.
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- Brown-Butter Butterscotch Pie
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- Baked 9" pie shell
- 6 Tablespoons butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup boiling water
- 3 Tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 2/3 cups milk
- 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Whipped cream or meringue
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- Melt butter in heavy skillet over low heat, watching carefully. When
- golden brown, add brown sugar; cook, stirring constantly, until mixture
- comes to a boil. Stir in water and remove from heat.
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- In saucepan mix cornstarch, flour, and salt. Blend in milk, stirring until
- smooth. Stir in brown sugar mixture. Cook over medium heat, stirring
- constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil 1 minute longer, remove
- >from heat.
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- Stir a little of hot mixture into egg yolks, then blend yolks into hot
- mixture. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add vanilla. Chill, stirring
- occasionally.
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- Pour into pie shell and chill. Spread with whipped cream just before
- serving or top with meringue. If you opt for meringue, you need not cool
- the filling before pouring it into the pie shell.
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