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Coffee (Cream Pie- eggs tablespoons)

*Cream Pie-3 eggs, 3 tablespoons sugar, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon Crisco, 1½ pints milk, and 1 teaspoon lemon extract.

Mix sugar and flour and then put into a saucepan, then add yolks of eggs, Crisco, milk and flavoring.

Stir constantly until it thickens and then divide into 2 baked pie crusts and cover with a meringue made of whites of eggs.

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