Butterscotch Meringue Pie

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Old-Fashioned Butterscotch Meringue Pie with a buttery pastry crust, a affluent and creamy homemade butterscotch pudding filling and a airy and fluffy mile-high meringue. Pie doesn’t get immoderate much delicious than this.

Butterscotch Pudding Pie with a portion chopped out.

Perfect Holiday Dessert

It’s a large pastry for Easter, Thanksgiving, oregon anytime you consciousness similar doing immoderate baking. I think I emotion this pastry adjacent much than Chocolate Meringue Pie.

Butterscotch pudding has ever been my precise favourite pudding flavor. There’s conscionable thing similar it. The silky, buttery brownish sweetener texture is delectable.

From-Scratch Filling

The operation of half-and-half and ovum yolks whisked with sweetener and cornstarch creates a luscious custard with tons of butterscotch flavor.

NOTE: If you privation to effort an easier mentation of this look effort this No-Bake Butterscotch Pie.

Recipe Tips

The pastry crust needs to beryllium pre-baked for this pie. I find that metallic pastry pans are amended than solid pastry plates for pre-baking. Too often erstwhile I usage a solid pastry plate, the pastry crust shrinks and slides down. Metal heats up faster and helps forestall shrinkage.
Don’t hide that you volition request pie weights oregon dried beans to pre-bake the crust arsenic good arsenic a portion of parchment paper.

When tempering the eggs for the butterscotch filling, beryllium careful. Very gradually whisk astir 1/4 of the full magnitude of the filling into the eggs. This volition dilatory bring the somesthesia of the eggs up to the somesthesia of the filling truthful that they don’t scramble and curdle. If your eggs bash curdle a small bit, determination the filling done a fine-meshed strainer earlier pouring it into the pastry crust.
When making the meringue, you privation to bushed the ovum whites until stiff, glossy peaks form. You tin archer they are done erstwhile you assistance the beater and the meringue holds its signifier erstwhile held upside down.
Butterscotch Meringue Pie is meant to beryllium served acold consecutive retired of the refrigerator. It is truthful chill and creamy this way.

You are going to emotion however rich, creamy, and indulgent this pastry is. It’s a large pastry for the holidays oregon anytime you consciousness similar baking!

More Old-Fashioned Pie Recipes

Chocolate Chess Pie– pastry making doesn’t get immoderate easier than this.
Oatmeal Pie– This pastry has a fantastic chewy texture.
Vinegar Pie– a delicious custard-based pie. Don’t worry, it doesn’t sensation similar vinegar.
Sugar Cream Pie– an egg-free pastry with a creamy filling.
Coconut Pumpkin Chiffon Pie
Sweetened Condensed Milk Chocolate Pie

Butterscotch Meringue Pie

Course Dessert

Cuisine Southern

Keyword homemade pie

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 32

Servings

Calories 421kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

1 refrigerated pastry crust
pie weights oregon dried beans
3/4 cup firmly packed brownish sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups half-and-half
4 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
1/4 cup butter, cubed
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
5 large egg whites
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
6 tablespoons granulated sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place pastry crust successful a 9-inch pastry cookware and mildly property into the bottommost and up the sides. Fold edges nether and crimp edges.
Top piecrust with a portion of parchment insubstantial and adhd pastry weights oregon dried beans. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the parchment insubstantial and weights and cook different 5 minutes. Let cool.
Reduce oven somesthesia to 350 degrees.
In a ample dense saucepan, harvester brownish sugar, 1/4 cupful sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Whisk successful half-and-half and bring to a boil implicit mean heat, stirring constantly.
Cook and disturbance for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
Place ovum yolks successful a mean vessel and gradually whisk successful 1/4 of the blistery half-and-half mixture.
This volition temper the eggs truthful that they bash not curdle.
Add the ovum yolk substance to the saucepan and whisk in. Cook, whisking continuously, until heavy and bubbly, astir 3 minutes.
Remove from vigor and disturbance successful vanilla and food until the food wholly melts. Pour into prepared pastry crust. Cover with integrative wrap.
In the vessel of an electrical mixer, bushed ovum whites and pick of tartar connected precocious velocity until foamy.
Gradually bushed successful 6 tablespoons of sweetener and support beating until stiff peaks form.
Remove integrative from pastry and spoon meringue implicit filling. Spread it each the mode to the edges truthful that it wholly covers and seals the filling.
Bake until golden, astir 12 minutes, successful in 350 grade oven.
Let chill wholly earlier slicing.

Notes

When tempering the eggs for the butterscotch filling, beryllium careful. Very gradually whisk astir 1/4 of the full magnitude of the filling into the eggs. This volition dilatory bring the somesthesia of the eggs up to the somesthesia of the filling truthful that they don’t scramble and curdle. If your eggs bash curdle a small bit, determination the filling done a fine-meshed strainer earlier pouring it into the pastry crust.