Remembering Mom with Custard Pie

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  The  recipe calls for 4 eggs, but we have included a dozen Free Range Chicken Eggs to commemorate Mom on her special day.
 

Ingredients

  • Frozen single-crust pastery pie shell
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2-1/2 cups 2% milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

  1. Purchase Frozen Pastry Pie Shells at Grocery Store [that's what Mom did]
  2. Separate 1 egg; set the white aside in a large bowl and let stand for 15 minutes. In a small bowl, beat the yolk and remaining eggs just until combined. Blend in the sugar, salt and vanilla. Stir in milk. Beat reserved egg white until stiff peaks form; fold into egg mixture.
  3.  Carefully pour into crust. Cover edge of pie with foil. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove foil; bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 15-20 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Store in the refrigerator.
  4. Serve at your Mother's Day Dinner. 

Here at the Free Range Chicken Ranch, we celebrate Mom's special day by asking her and/or her mom these questions:

  1.  What did you have as a child that kids today don’t have?

  2. Who has been your greatest coach in life? How have they coached you? What made them good at it?

  3. When you were a teenager and young adult, whom did you go to for advice? Looking back, was it good advice?

  4. What was your favorite movie or book when you were my age?

  5. Tell me a story about a family reunion or family party that you remember attending as a child.

  6. What are your favorite stories that grandpa/grandma told (or still tells)?

  7. What are your best memories of holidays or family gatherings as a child?

  8. What three adjectives would your mother use to describe you? What about your grandmother?

  9. What is the best thing that your grandmother ever cooked? What about your parents?

  10. If you could go back to one day in your childhood, which day would that be? Why?

  11.  How are you most different from your mother? Your grandmother? How are you the same?

  12. What did your grandmother(s) do with you that you loved? What did they do that you didn’t enjoy so much?

(This list was inspired by Table Topics, especially the “Family Gatherings” collection).

 

 


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