Name: Cocoanut Meringue Pie
Ingredients: fresh grated cocoanut (about 1 to 1½ cups); sugar (for sprinkling on top)

Cocoanut Meringue Pie

Ingredients

fresh grated cocoanut (about 1 to 1½ cups)
sugar (for sprinkling on top)

Directions

Prepare a cornstarch meringue pie filling, omitting the butter.
Stir in the fresh grated cocoanut just before cooling the filling.
Spread meringue over the pie filling.
Scatter grated cocoanut on top of the meringue.
Sprinkle sugar over the grated cocoanut and brown lightly in the oven.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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Cocoanut Meringue Pie