Vintage Recipe Thursday: custard pie recipe

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve your own original vintage family recipes, or out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and postcards. You're invited! Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Household Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943. What will you post?

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Custard Pie Recipe

2 cups milk, scalded

5 tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

3 eggs

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat eggs until yolks and whites are blended.  Add sugar, salt, nutmeg, and extract.  Mix thoroughly.  Add milk slowly, stirring constantly.  Pour into pastry-lined pie pan.  Bake in hot oven (425 F.) until an inserted knife comes out clean. 

More Vintage Recipes from Participants:

Apple Salad with Craisins

Slow Cooked Meat Balls

Dandelion Salad