Originally Posted by
TanyaL
1 9 inch unbaked pastry shell
4 slightly beaten eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 1/3 cups milk, scalded
nutmeg
Chill pie shell while making filling. blend eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla, and almond extract. Gradually stir in scalded milk. Pour into pie shell. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake in hot oven 400 degrees 25-30 minutes or till knife inserted halfway between outside and center of custard comes out clean. Cool on cooling rack 15-30 minutes; then chill in refrigerator.
I'm at work but if I remember correctly, my mother in law's recipe is like this except it calls for 5 eggs, 1 pint of milk, no almond extract and the milk isn't scalded. I just made this last Sunday. By the way - she was the pie baker in a Frankie's Cafeteria for many years so she knew her pies.