Coconut Cream Pie ©

        From Mama's Kitchen: 

A Timeless Coconut Cream Pie Recipe             

Ingredients

 6 T Cornstarch

3/4 C Sugar
1/2 t  Salt

4 Eggs

4 C Milk
1t Vanilla
2 Tbsp Butter
1 C Coconut
1 baked deep dish pie shell

Meringue
4 egg whites
3 t sugar
Beat together well til peaks form 

Stir together cornstarch, sugar, salt in a saucepan. Pour enough milk in sauce pan to stir together well. In a Pyrex measuring cup heat the remaining milk 5 min. in microwave. Separate eggs putting the whites in mixing bowl for meringue (set aside whites). Whisk yolks into cornstarch mixture, add a little hot milk whisking constantly to temper eggs cook over medium heat til thick stirring constantly.
add 2 Tbsp butter and vanilla turn off heat. Stir in coconut. Pour in baked pie shell. Spread meringues on pie sealing all the way to  the edges. Bake at 350 for ten minutes or til brown

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