100 Year-Old Old Fashioned Cream Pie

⏱ 50 mins 🍽 8-10 serving(s) 🏷 Pie

This traditional cream pie recipe features a filling made from egg whites beaten with sugar, flour and salt, then combined with egg yolks, evaporated milk, water, brown sugar and vanilla. The mixture is poured into an unbaked 10-inch pie shell and baked, first at a high temperature then at a lower one, until set and golden. It yields 8 to 10 servings and takes about 50 minutes to prepare and bake.

100 Year-Old Old Fashioned Cream Pie

Ingredients

  • 3 large eggs, seperated
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 12 ounces evaporated milk
  • 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 (10 inch) unbaked pie shells

Method

  1. Beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks, then incorporate the white sugar, flour and salt.
  2. Add the egg yolks and beat the mixture once more. Pour the evaporated milk into a one-pint measuring cup and top it up to the full pint line with water, then add this liquid along with the packed brown sugar.
  3. Stir in the vanilla extract and mix everything thoroughly until well combined.
  4. Transfer the prepared filling into the 10-inch unbaked pie shell, using a glass pie dish if possible.
  5. Place in an oven preheated to 400* and bake until the surface turns a light brown colour. Then lower the oven temperature to 325* and continue baking for a further 30 minutes.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium232600 mg

Recipe details

CategoryPie
Authorgrandma2969