DESSERTS

FORGOTTEN PIE

4 egg whites 1% cups sugar
Y4 teaspoon -salt 1 teaspoon
4% teaspoon cream of tartar vanilla

Grease well and flour 9” pie plate. Beat egg whites until foamy, add
salt and cream of tartar. Gradually add sugar, a little at a time, and vanilla
and continue beating until egg whites are stiff and glossy. Place meringue
in pie plate, shaping it to form a pie shell. Put in oven preheated to 400°F.
Turn off heat and leave until oven is cold. Don't peek! This recipe may
be made in the evening and the meringue left in the oven over night.

Make custard filling with % cup flour, % cup sugar, pinch of salt,
1 cup light cream, 1 cup milk, 4 egg yolks (well beaten), 1% teaspoons
vanilla. Cook over hot water until thick. Cool and pour into meringue
shell. Chill. To serve, garnish chilled pie with thawed frozen or fresh
strawberries. Yields 6 servings.

CALORIE COUNTERS’ GARNISH

Extend whipped cream to
extra servings and at the same
time reduce the calories for the
“weight-watchers”.

1 stiffly beaten egg white may
be added to as little as % cup
cream whipped, or as much as
% pint whipped. Fold together,
and refrigerate for use later or

serve at once.

Sweetening may be beaten A j
into egg white or cream. Egg-Whipped Cream Garnish

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