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Grandma Margaret Gatlin's Butterscotch Pie

Submitted By Matthew Ray Gatlin
Ingredients:

1 cup dark brown sugar
3 Tbsp flour
pinch of salt
1 cup milk
2 eggs, separated
2 Tbsp butter
1 8- or 9-inch baked pie shell
¼ tsp cream of tartar
4 Tbsp sugar

Combine sugar, flour, and salt in top of double
boiler. Heat milk and slowly stir into flour and sugar
mixture. Cook over boiling water until mixture
begins to thicken. Beat egg yolks in small bowl and
stir about 1 cup of hot liquid into egg yolks; combine
the two mixtures in top of double boiler. Add butter
and cook until thick and pour into pie shell. Make
meringue by beating egg whites and cream of tartar
until stiff. Gradually add 4 Tbsp sugar to egg
whites and continue beating until it holds a peak.
Cover pie with meringue and bake at 400°F until brown.

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