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Martha Washington's Nutmeg Custard Pie (1770)

Here's how you make Martha Washington's Nutmeg Custard Pie (1770)
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 30m
  • Cook: 70m
  • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • Scald
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Pie
  • 3 eggs
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 9 ounces pie crust (1)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 425F.

  • Step 2: Line a 9-inch pie pan with pastry.

  • Step 3: Flute edge, and prick bottom and sides with fork tines.

  • Step 4: Bake for 7 minutes.

  • Step 5: Remove pie from oven.

  • Step 6: Reduce oven temperature to 325F.

  • Step 7: Meanwhile, In a medium saucepan, scald milk with bay leaf and cinnamon stick.

  • Step 8: In a bowl, thoroughly combine eggs with egg yolks, sugar, vanilla extract, nutmeg, and salt.

  • Step 9: Remove bay leaf and cinnamon stick from milk.

  • Step 10: Strain scalded milk over egg mixture gradually stirring like crazy to temper eggs, and mix well.

  • Step 11: Pour into baked pie shell.

  • Step 12: Bake in a slow oven until a knife inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.

  • Step 13: Cool on a wire rack.


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