Cream Cocoa-nut Pie for Pi Day!
Today, March 14th, is the whimsical "holiday" known as Pi Day. Such a fun excuse to make a pie, as if one truly needed an excuse to so so! I was torn between two historic pies - cranberry and coca-nut. Both are still seasonal, cranberries starting to show up less frequently in my grocery stores of choice, and coconut being something I remember only appearing in the winter when I was a child. Because of the path of my errands, I went to a grocery that I frequent less often and that store's stock made the decision for me. No cranberries, either fresh or frozen. Coconut it is! I had already selected my recipe: Cream Cocoa-nut Pudding from Miss Eliza Leslie's 1854 edition of New Receipts for Cooking (Philadelphia). Since I planned on making this recipe as a pie, I decided to cut the quantity in half so I would wind up with only one pie. Preparing the Coconut In this part I was ably assisted by my hus...