Cook stirring occasionally until mixture thickens. Mix together well and then add it to the hot milk mixture. Meanwhile combine remaining 1 cup of milk and cornstarch in a bowl. Sprinkle on the pie before serving.In a large saucepan combine 2 cups milk, sugar and salt. Remove, cool and put in an air tight container. Put in a preheated 375 oven a few minutes until it starts to turn golden brown. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate preferably overnight. Cool for about an hour at room temperature then pour equal amounts into each pie pan. Continue to let it thicken about 3 minutes. Now take this egg mixture and slowly drizzle into the saucepan thickened milk mixture. Take one-half cup of the hot mixture and slowly drizzle into the eggs tempering them. Put on a medium blaze for about 5 to 7 minutes whisking most of the time. In a medium size sauce pan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, salt, milk, sour cream and vanilla. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 5 minutes. Divide between the two pie pans and pat into the bottom and slightly up the sides. In a mixing bowl, combine the crushed graham crackers, walnuts, wheat germ and butter. Check out some of my creations: Ally’s Coconut Recipes. I have so many recipes for coconut cooking. But, you’ll be missing some of the elements of cooking way back when in the 1950s and 1960s when we truly did most everything from scratch.
#Old fashioned coconut cream pie cracker
You can save some steps in making this pie by using a pre-made graham cracker crust. When days were longer, people waved at each other as they drove down the street, kids walked to school, rode their bikes, doors were left unlocked and everyone knew you name and your family. It’s like eating a slice of a life long gone. This pie is refrigerated and is simply divine. I decided to add toasted coconut to it and make the pie crust, with a graham cracker base, more substantial and with more texture. I’m not sure if this pie is what Sarah’s palate memories are, but I can assuredly say that this pie is one of my family’s favorites. He was like our real live baby doll that we would play with! I would spend hours in Sarah and Gilman’s kitchen watching Miss Lulah cook, and I learned so much from her! Graham Cracker Crust No Bake There were two children, Sarah, who was about six years younger than me, and her brother, Gilman, who was maybe ten years younger. Growing up in West Virginia, we had dear neighbors, the Burgess family. That’s how this graham cracker crust pie came about. I love it when someone tells me about something that they loved eating as a child, growing up, the memories it would evoke. She insisted that it was a graham cracker crust no bake pie.
Of course, I probed and questioned, and Sarah described and explained. I hadn’t, so I set about asking Sarah about what made it so delicious. One day Sarah asked me if I’d ever tasted Miss Opal’s creme pie with a graham cracker crust. Fast forward now some decades later and both Sarah and I are grown, both grandmothers and we still are friends, virtually seeing each other daily on Facebook. Here are just a few!Ĭustard pies have a way of bringing old friends together, especially with today’s social media. And, do I have a storage chamber of them. Nothing’s better to me than a great coconut dessert.
Just try some of these recipes!Ĭoconut Ginger Orange Pork Coconut Dessert Coconut RecipesĬoconut recipes don’t just have to be for sweets. Knowing that memories are connected emotionally to food, and knowing that Sarah had these warm special memories, I set about trying to recreate this pie and a recipe for Sarah. Sarah said she wished she’d gotten Miss Opal’s recipe before she passed away in her early 90s. Now, Miss Opal and her husband, Talmadge, were lifelong residents of our small Appalachian town and our families were all intertwined in this small mountain community. Sarah PM’d me on Facebook and asked if I remember Miss Opal. And, it all starts with Sarah, a childhood friend from my growing up in West Virginia. Oh, the sweet story behind these cookies. I’ll usually make that recipe, like these pie crust cookies. Nothing thrills me more than to have someone share with me a cherished recipe from their family heritage. Keeping history alive through food is one of my passions. With this graham cracker cream pie, I’m giving tastes of growing up in those Appalachian mountains. 399 Shares Old-Fashioned Coconut Cream Pie
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