Hawaiian Recipes ~ Macadamia nut cream pie

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Ingredients :

• 1 1/3 cups milk
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup chopped macadamia nuts
• dash salt
• 1 tspn vanilla
• 1 egg
• 5 tspn cornstarch
• 2 egg whites
• 1 x 9" baking pie shell
• 1 cup heavy cream, sweetened and whipped, or use a container of real whipped cream in a can

Preparation & Cooking Instructions :

1. In a saucepan combine 1 cup of the milk, ¼ cup of the sugar, ¼ cup of the nuts, the salt and the vanilla; scald.
2. Mix the remaining 1/3 cup milk with egg and cornstarch. Thoroughly stir some of hot mixture into egg mixture; return all to saucepan.
3. Cook 5 more minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Cool 1 hour.
4. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form then fold carefully into cooled mixture.
5. Pour into pie shell and chill.
6. Before serving top with sweetened whipped cream or can of whipped cream and remaining ¼ cup nuts. Serves 8.