Grapefruit Custard Pie

Name: Grapefruit Custard Pie
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 c. sugar; Unbaked 9" pie shell; 1 tsp. grated orange peel; 1 c. light cream; 3 eggs, separated; 1 medium grapefruit; 1½ tblsp. soft butter or margarine; ⅛ tsp. salt; 2½ tblsp. flour; 1½ tblsp. soft butter or margarine

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

About

Top of pie bakes to rich red-orange— filling is tasty and sweet-tart

Ingredients

Unbaked 9" pie shell
1 c. sugar
2½ tblsp. flour

Americas
United States
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Combine sugar, flour, butter and salt in bowl; add egg yolks and mix thoroughly.
Ream grapefruit; do not strain juice. You should have about 1 c. juice and pulp.
Stir grapefruit juice into sugar mixture; add orange peel and light cream, mixing well.
Beat egg whites until they form soft peaks when beater is lifted; fold into grapefruit mixture.