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CUSTARD FILLING

Ingredients
8 tablespoons cornstarch 3 cups scalded milk
2/3 cup sugar 2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup cold water
4 egg yolks (beaten with 4 tablespoons cold milk saved from the one cup)

Instructions
Mix cornstarch, sugar, salt and cold milk together. Gradually add hot milk. Cook
until thick stirring constantly. When very thick add some of the hot mixture to the
egg yolks and the 4 tablespoons cold milk. Add to custard. Cook for another 3
minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from flame and add vanilla and cool.

SIMPLE RECIPE FOR CUSTARD / COCONUT CUSTARD

Ingredients
2 ¼ cup milk 3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup coconut

Instructions
Slightly beat eggs and the sugar, salt and vanilla. Heat milk to a quick boil and then
pour milk very slowly into egg mixture, stirring constantly. Then add coconut if

desired. Pour into bowl or pie shell and cool.

This is Aunt Julia and Uncle Dick Vitale’s recipe. Uncle Dick was Virginia Mazzola’s
brother.

WINE CREAM

Ingredients
4 tablespoons sugar 1 egg

3 egg yolks grated lemon rind
1 ¼ cups white wine 3 egg whites

Instructions
Beat egg yolks and sugar until foamy. Add all the other ingredients except for egg
whites. In a pan with water, place bowl and beat egg whites. Remove bowl from water.
Finally, add the beaten egg white to the mixture and refrigerate.

This recipe is from my Oma’s German recipes.

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