Golden apple custard pie

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 tablespoon Butter; softened
1 9\" unbaked pie shell
2 larges Golden Delicious apples; cored/sliced (don't peel)
3 Eggs
1½ cup Milk
½ cup Light cream (half-and-half)
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
½ cup Sugar; divided
½ teaspoon Nutmeg, ground
½ teaspoon Salt

Directions

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 400-degree 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

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