Restaurant Style Egg Custard Pie

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Description

Excellent Egg Custard Pie recipe that I’ve worked at forever to duplicate a popular restaurant’s pie! I finally got it!

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 1 (9 inch) refrigerated pie crust

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
  2. In a large bowl
  3. combine eggs
  4. sugar
  5. salt and vanilla. Mix just enough to incorporate all the ingredients. Set aside. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat
  6. combine milk and butter. Use a wire whisk and stir constantly until the milk begins to rise in the saucepan at a rapid boil – 5 to 8 minutes. NEVER stop stirring
  7. or the milk will burn. Pour the hot mixture into the egg mixture
  8. stirring as you pour.
  9. Line a 9 inch pan with dough. Pour custard mixture into crust. Protect the edges of crust with a ring of aluminum foil.
  10. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Filling will appear slightly jiggly. Allow to cool.

Prep Time: 10 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Total Time: 40 mins

Servings: 8

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