Recipe - Butterscotch Pie (Amish Cooking)

2 tablespoon Butter
1 cup Brown sugar
2/3 cup Hot water
2 tablespoon Flour
3 tablespoon Cornstarch
One half teaspoon Salt
2 Egg yolks
2 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Brown the butter in a heavy saucepan. Add the brown sugar and stir it until
it is melted. Add the hot water and cook the syrup until all the lumps
disappear.

Mix together the flour, cornstarch, salt, eggs and milk, then slowly stir
this mixture into the hot syrup. Boil it until it thickens, then add the
vanilla. Pour it into a baked pie shell and top it with meringue.

Variations: If you wish to use this as a butterscotch pudding or sauce, add
One half cup more milk.

Recipe by: Amish Cooking, Herald Press, ISBN 0836136004

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #826 by 4paws@netrax.net (ShermeyerGail) on
Oct 04, 1997