The vanilla flavor explodes as you take your first bite of this vintage pie. You'll want to keep this recipe around.
add flour into a mixing bowl with the butter.
Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour.
add salt and water.
Mix until dough is formed.
Roll the dough out on a flat surface.
put foil on the bottom of the pie crust and add dry beans or pie weights
Bake at 375 degrees until brown. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
Scald milk in a saucepan
Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a pan and place on medium heat.
Slowly, add scalded milk, ½ cup at a time while continuing to whisk. As the mixture starts to thicken, add the next ½ cup of scalded milk.
Add milk, a 1/2 until all the milk has been added.
Continue to stir while the custard starts re-thicken.
Remove from the heat and temper the beaten eggs by adding ¼ cup of the custard mixture to the eggs at a time, continuing to stir.
Once two cups of batter have been mixed with the eggs, add back to the saucepan at medium heat.
Stir the custard until it thickens and resembles a thick pudding, remove from heat.
Stir in melted butter and vanilla.
Pour into baked pie shell and chill overnight.