COCOANUT PIE
- ½ pint (1 cup) chopped cocoanut
- 1 pint (2 cups) milk
- 2 eggs
- 6 ozs. (¾ cup) sugar
- 2 ozs. (2 heaping tablespoonfuls) cornstarch
- Pinch of salt
- 1 oz. (1 heaping tablespoonful) butter
- ½ teaspoonful almond extract
- 1 lemon
Line a fireproof dish with pastry. Mix the cornstarch and the sugar together, add the eggs well beaten, the milk, butter, cocoanut, salt, almond extract, and the grated rind and the strained juice of the lemon. Pour into the prepared dish and bake in a hot oven till firm.