Claremont Diner Coconut Cream Pie

Anyone who grew up in northern New Jersey in the 1950s remembers the Claremont Diner, a landmark in the quintessential suburban cultural landscape. The creation of an Austrian-born tyrant named Morris Bauman, the Claremont had all the showy food you still find in glitzy diners everywhere—but done right, made from scratch with top-quality ingredients. More than three decades later, this is my approximation from memory of my favorite childhood pie.