I made a mile high butterscotch pie today and the Official Cookie Tester is circling 😄. A group got together at our church this morning to make pies and shells for our upcoming roast beef dinner so I came home with enough dough for a crust and decided that he needed a sweet treat.
This is a recipe from my childhood; it's SO good that we would hide the last piece in different kitchen cupboards just to ensure it was ours! It came from a wonderful cookbook put together by the Baptist ladies in our community, its not overly sweet and is quite easy to make. I used one of my Pyrex pie plates, which I find is a bit deeper than some, so I just doubled the recipe and it came out perfectly. Want to give it a try? Here's the recipe:
Butterscotch Pie
3/4 c brown sugar
2 tbsp + 1 tsp flour
shake of salt
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
1 1/2 c milk (best to use 2% or Homo)
Combine sugar, flour and salt; mix well. Add egg yolks plus a little milk; don't let mixture become lumpy. Whisk in remaining milk. Cook on low until thick. Remove from heat and stir in:
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla
Pour into 9" baked pie shell. When room temperature, cover with meringue.
Meringue
3 egg whites
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
6 tbsp white sugar
Beat egg whites with cream of tartar until frothy. Gradually add sugar; beat until stiff. Bake at 350
°F for 15 minutes, until golden.
After pie, I toyed around with these scrappy
Log Cabin blocks for a while (they have been on the design wall since I finished
Sea Glass - that was in 2015!) but didn't do more than trim them to size and sew them all together.
They were going to become a cushion cover but I can't seem to get into it somehow - now I'm thinking table topper.
Yellow border? This is the yellow that I used in the centre of the blocks but there's a green/aqua dot in the pattern that is just barely showing in the bottom corner of this photo that doesn't work. I'd have to cut around it and I don't have enough fabric to do it without piecing the border, so I think not.
How about blue? Still deciding. If it's now a table topper I'm thinking that the blue that I was going to use for a pillow backing (bottom left) might be the best option. Or maybe both. I'll mull it over more as I enjoy my pie....M
My husband will love butterscotch pie although I'm not going to tell him about the recipe till this fall. Your sea glass colors are so soft. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteLetting some fabric decision mull around for a while seems to work for me. You'll come up with the perfect choice. Maybe after another piece of that delicious looking pie!
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