Recipe - Golden Apple Custard Pie

1 tablespoon Butter; softened
1 9" unbaked pie shell
2 lg Golden Delicious apples;
cored/ cut or sliced up (don't peel)
3 Eggs
1 One half cup Milk
One half cup Light cream (halfandhalf)
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One half cup Sugar; divided
One half teaspoon Nutmeg, ground
One half teaspoon Salt

1. Brush butter over bottom of pie shell. Arrange apple slices in pie shell
in an overlapping pinwheel design.

2. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, milk, light cream, vanilla and all
but 2 teaspoons of the sugar.

3. Carefully spoon egg mixture over apples. Mix reserved 2 teaspoons sugar
with nutmeg and salt and sprinkle on top.

4. Place pie in a roasting pan and place in the oven. Pour enough boiling
water into the roasting pan to reach halfway up the sides of the pie pan.

5. Bake in a preheated 400degree oven for 40 minutes. Reduce temperature
to 300 degrees and bake until custard is set, about 20 minutes longer.

6. Cool pie completely before cutting. Refrigerate the leftovers.

Source: Chicago Sun Times, November 6, 1996
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #307

Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 20:04:53 +0000

From: Linda Place placel@worldnet.att.net