Peanut Butter Pie
Source: Brenda Hice
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 9 inch pie shell – or make your own single pie shell
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup peanut butter (I like to use ¾ cup peanut butter)
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 3 egg yolks
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups scalded milk
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 heaping tablespoons or cornstarch
- Meringue:
- 3 egg whites
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Combine 1 cup powdered sugar and ½ cup peanut butter. Blend until mixture has appearance of biscuit mix (size of small peas) and set aside.
- Combine granulated sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir until well blended.
- Add a little scalded milk to egg yolks and mix well.
- Add this and the rest of the milk to the granulated sugar mixture.
- Cook over hot water (double boiler) until thick (like pudding).
- Remove from heat and add vanilla and butter.
- Stir until butter is melted.
- Sprinkle ¾ cup of powdered sugar/peanut butter mixture over baked pie shell.
- Add cooked mixture.
- Meringue Directions:
- Beat eggs until frothy. Add sugar gradually and continue beating until stiff peaks form. Add vanilla.
- Add meringue.
- Sprinkle rest of powdered sugar mixture over meringue.
- Bake 325 for 15 minutes or until brown.
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Sounds great…I love peanut butter, and, have a great frozen peanut butter pie recipe…this is considerably different. Can’t wait to try. Thanks for posting recipes on periodically, I am a foodie and always looking for new one!
You are welcome!
Ok, I need help with the scalded milk? Do you just get it warm or really burn it?
You do not burn it – it will have a “skin” on the bottom of the pan – do NOT scrape it.
I would love to make this. Which steps are the meringue? I was a little confused on which steps are the cooked mixture and which are the meringue.
I updated it to help
Thank you!
You are so welcome!