I'm looking for a recipe for Brown Sugar Pie. Many years ago there was a cooking show on TV that featured two older gentlemen - I believe the show was called "Cookin' Cheap", but I'm probably wrong. This recipe was extremely easy to make. While baking, the pie was supposed to "raise up like a top hat". Anyone every heard of this?
My Grandmother got a recipe from her Mother-in-law in 1915. She never would reveal the recipe and I have never seen a pie like it. It was delicious. All I can remember was it had molasses in it. A rough cake would rise to the top while baking and the bottom was a sweet gel like(pecan pies have). It was a German recipe. I have been looking for it for 60 years.
do a google search, they are still on..............."Larry Blye and Labin Johnson, the stars of "Cookin' Cheap" television's longest running cooking show,"
Brown Sugar Pie From Diana Rattray, Your Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine.
A brown sugar pie made with butter, brown sugar, eggs, and milk. INGREDIENTS:
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons water 2 cups cold milk 4 tablespoons cornstarch 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 baked pie shell PREPARATION:
Combine brown sugar, salt, and water in top of double boiler. Boil over moderate heat to a thick syrup (about 5 minutes). Mix 1/4 cup milk and cornstarch to a thin paste. Add 1 3/4 cups milk; then combine with hot syrup and cook over hot water until thick and smooth, then cook 15 minutes longer, stirring constantly.
Stir a small amount of mixture into beaten egg yolks, return to double boiler, and cook a few minutes longer. Add butter and vanilla. Cool. Pour into baked pie shell. Top with a meringe. For meringue:
2 egg whites 4 tablespoons brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Beat egg whites until the hold stiff peaks. Add sugar gradually, beating constantly. Add vanilla. Pile lightly on filling; bake at 325 degrees for about 20 minutes, or until firm and lightly browned.
That's 800,000 hits, not recipes. I am pretty sure she is looking for a particular recipe to save her from having to go through a thousand pages. One problem I have found with googling recipes is that it's usually the same recipe over and over and not the one I am looking for.
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