Huckleberry Custard
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Line deep pie plates with pastry.
Half fill them with huckleberries.
Make the custard pie
Pour sweet custard over the berries.
Bake until set.
If desired, use egg whites to make meringue for topping.
Bake until golden.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Huckleberries
- Provide the main fruit flavor and juicy filling that sits beneath the custard.
- Sweet custard
- Forms the set, creamy body of the pie once baked.
- Pie pastry
- Holds the filling in the plate and gives the pie its base structure.
The step that matters
Bake until set. Underbaked custard stays runny and may not hold a clean slice, while overbaking can cause the custard to weep or turn grainy as the egg proteins tighten too far.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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