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Ruth's Favorite Butterscotch Pie

Desserts
Author: Steve
This is a delicious and fairly easy recipe for a butterscotch pudding pie.
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Ingredients

Filling

  • 1 pint milk
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 Tbsp corn starch
  • 2 Tbsp flour
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 3 Tbsp butter
  • ½ tsp vanilla

Meringue

  • 2 egg whites
  • 2 Tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • cooled pie shell

Instructions

Filling

  • Preheat oven to 450 °F.
  • Heat milk.
  • Mix sugar, corn starch and flour and add to milk.  Cook until thick.
  • Beat egg yolks and add. Cook 5 minutes longer.
  • Add butter and vanilla.
  • Pour into a cooled pie shell.

Meringue

  •  Whip egg whites until stiff, then add the sugar gradually along with the vanilla.
  • Spoon the meringue onto the pie and bake for about 5 minutes. Watch carefully.