Cantaloupe Pie

Cooked, mashed pulp of one good cantaloupe
1/2 cup sugar
8 tbs. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3 egg yolks
2 tbs. water
1 tbs. butter
1 baked pie shel

lCombine dry ingredients and add to hot pulp. Stir until thick. Beat yolks and water. Add a little cantaloupe mixture to yolks to heat gradually. Then add. Continue cooking, stirring until thick and creamy. Add butter and pour into baked, cooled pie shell. Make a meringue by beating three egg whites, 1/4 tsp cream of tartar and 6 tbs. sugar. Top pie and bake in preheated 400 deg. oven until delicately brown on top.

I added one braeburn apple, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, more sugar, and lemon juice. Mixed reaction on the whole thing, I thought it was kind of gross. I believe my mother's reaction was something like "Ahem, yes well it's always good to try new things! It's quite... interesting" (she has this reaction to a lot of my 'experiments')

Pie Crust
1 C Flour
1/4 t salt
1/4 lb cold butter
1 egg yolk
2 T ice water

Used tart crust from Fanny Farmer. Added 1 1/2 T sugar, maybe use less next time. Can use a blender with this crust. I really liked it, but I should make it early so that it is cold, and roll out between two pieces of wax- I did not like 'smushing' it in the pan. Also, use pie pan and not cake pan.

Meringue
4 egg whites, room temp
6 T sugar
1/8 t salt
Put egg whites and sugar in a bowl and put that in a pan of warm water, stir until eggs are warm. Add salt and beat.

From Fanny Farmer. Okay it takes FOREVER to make meringue- BE PATIENT! Be VERY careful about no egg yolk and make sure eggs are warm. The first time I tried this- disaster. Second time was okay, but not great.