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Cocoanut Custard Pie

Make a common plain custard of 1 quart of milk, 6 or 8 eggs and 6 ounces of sugar, then mix in 8 to 12 ounces of grated cocoanut. Bake in crusts. Cocoanut Pie. Hotel Ordinary, 1 quart of milk. 6 ounces of sugar. 2 ounces of corn starch. 1 ounce of butter. 8 ounces of grated cocoanut. 6 eggs.

Boil the milk, mix the starch in the sugar dry and stir them in and the butter and cocoanut, and then take the mixture from the fire. Stir in the eggs after it has cooled a little. The eggs should be beaten quite light first. Sift powdered sugar over the pies after baking.

For cocoanut meringue pie make the preceding mixture with 12 yolks of eggs and take the whites to beat up for the meringue. Strew cocoanut on top before baking.