basic cream pie..multi use

How To Make basic cream pie..multi use

• 1

  Melt 1/2 stick oleo in saucepan. Remove from burner.
• 2

  Add the flour, sugar, milk, using whisk to mix well. Put back on burner, medium heat, and whisk constantly until it has thickened.
• 3

  Stir together the 3 egg yolks. When mixture above is thickened remove from burner, add 2 or 3 Tablespoons to egg yolks to warm them. Next add the yolks to the mixture in the saucepan, whisking as you pour. You don't put back on burner.
• 4

  1) To make pineapple pie, I add an 8 oz can crushed pineapple and stir well. Pour into baked 9 in pie shell. Chill and top with whipped cream. 2) For chocolate pies, I add 2 - 3 tablespoons of Hershey's Cocoa Natural Unsweetened (can use other dry cocoa). This I add with the sugar at beginning. 3) For coconut pies I add a small can of coconut after cooking before pouring into the baked pie shell.
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