Old Fashioned Southern Egg Custard Pie Recipe

🧂 Ingredients

• 9- inch pie crust
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups half and half
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/8 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg

  plus some to sprinkle on top

Instructions

• 1 Preheat your oven to 400-degrees
• 2 Poke holes, with a fork, in the bottom and sides of your room temperature pie
  crust.
• 3 Place a pie shield or aluminum foil around the top edges of the crust.
• 4 Bake the crust for 10 minutes and set aside. (After the pie cools, place it on a
  cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil).
• 5
  Lower oven temperature to 325-degrees
• 6 In a medium-sized bowl, add the eggs and beat.
• 7 Next, pour the half and half, salt, sugar, and nutmeg into the bowl and mix
  well.
• 8 Pour mixture into the pie shell and bake for 50-55 minutes at 325-degree
  temperature.
• 9 After the pie cooks, allow it to cool in the refrigerator for at least one hour.

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