Bring to a boil over medium heat, WHISKING CONSTANTLY FOR ONE MINUTE. Cornstarch in a heavy saucepan.Whisk the Half & Half and the Egg Yolks into the dry mixture until smooth. Watch the coconut carefully or it can burn very quickly! (You may choose to blind bake the crust if you wish.) Allow the crust to cool completely after baking.Ĭombine 1/2 C. If making toasted coconut garnish you can place the coconut on a baking sheet and toast in the oven while the pie crust is baking. (This will help to keep the pie crust crisp.) Bake according to the package directions for a one crust pie. Brush some of the reserved egg whites over the surface of the crust before baking. Prick bottom and sides of crust with a fork. Later she told me she actually got up in the night to eat the rest of it! She couldn’t stand the thought of waiting until morning to to finish it…it was THAT good.įit piecrust into a 9 in. Well…Nancy couldn’t eat the whole piece during dinner, but she took the rest of her uneaten slice home with her. Well…let me tell you…This pie is one for the record books! And then I used those four unused egg whites to make an egg white omelet for my breakfast. And I blind baked the crust to keep it from shrinking in the pie pan. This helped to keep the crust from getting soggy after the custard filling was added. I brushed some of the unused egg whites on the raw pie crust before baking. (I’ve always been a rebel!) But this time I decided to stick with the recipe as it was written. Now…those of you who know me know I am famous for not following recipes as they are written. (And no…I did NOT climb the neighbor’s coconut tree…I had a bag of sweetened coconut in the cupboard!) The reviews of that recipe were top notch so I decided to give it a whirl, especially since I realized I had all the ingredients on hand. And the first coconut pie recipe listed was one from Southern Living.
I stumbled onto the site called My Recipes. I pretended I really didn’t hear his plea, but I decided to scour the Internet to see what kind of coconut pie recipe I could come up with. (That sad face works nearly every time…but don’t tell Peepaw I said so!) But Peepaw gave me a sad puppy dog face and asked me if I couldn’t make a coconut pie instead. I asked the folks if they all liked coconut since I was thinking of making a batch of my Rocky Road Brownies to share for dessert. The other day we were visiting with some of our friends and we decided to get together for a pot luck dinner on the deck…kind of a send-off for one of our snowbird friends who was heading back North. Sometimes it pays to listen to Peepaw…especially when it comes to coconut.
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