Rosie's peanut butter pie

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
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½ cup Peanut butter
1 cup Sifted powdered sugar
1½ cup Sugar
½ cup Cornstarch
3¾ cup Milk
2 Beaten eggs
½ cup Butter or margarine; cut up
1 tablespoon Vanilla
1 Baked 9-inch piecrust (with; edges crimped high)
¾ cup Whipping cream

Directions

In a mixing bowl, cut the peanut butter into the powdered sugar till crumbly. Set aside.

For the filling, in a medium or large saucepan, combine the sugar and cornstarch. Add milk all at once. Cook and stir till bubbly. Cook 2 minutes more. Remove from heat and gradually stir about 1 cup of the hot mixture into the eggs. Return all to saucepan. Cook till nearly bubbly, but do not boil. Reduce the heat. Cook and stir the mixture for 2 minutes more. Stir the butter or margarine and vanilla into the mixture.

Sprinkle the baked crust with half of the peanut butter mixture. Mound the filling on top. Cover; chill 1 hour.

In a mixing bowl, beat the whipping cream just till stiff peaks form (tips stand straight). Spread whipped cream over pie. Sprinkle with remaining peanut mixture. Chill till serving time (at least 2 hours). Store leftovers in the refrigerator. Makes 8 servings. From Rosie's Diner in Rockford, MI Recipe printed in Midwest Living, April 1993 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #764 by Nancy Berry <nlberry@...> on Aug 29, 1997

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