Mom's Coconut Custard Pie

By Tonya_Speed

Another one of my mom's recipes with the ingredients and very few instructions!

Ingredients

• 2 unbaked 9" pie shells
• 5 egg, slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 3/4 tsp vanilla
• 2 3/4 cups milk, scalded
• 1 cup coconut, divided
• fresh groung nutmeg

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 475.
Thoroughly mix eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla. Slowly pour in scalded milk. Divide between 2 pie shells. Sprinkle 1/2 cup coconut over top of each pie and dust lighly with nutmeg.
bake at 475 for 5 minutes, then at 425 for 10 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.