old-fashioned hoosier pie

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 (9inch) unbaked pie shell
  • ground cinnamon or nutmeg
  • to taste(about 1/4 tsp)

Preparation

Step 1

preheat oven to 350 degrees. mix sugar, flour and salt. add heavy cream and mix well.

in a separate bowl, mix half and half with egg yolks; add to sugar mixture and mix well. add vanilla and stir gently until creamy; do not beat
pour into pie shell and add a fine sprinkle of nutmeg or cinnamon.

bake about 1 hour, until filling is set.

serves 8