This isn’t a cream pie, but a rich, delicious custard I remember well from my childhood growing up in a small North Carolina town.
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flaked coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Beat together butter, sugar, and eggs [...]
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Salmon patties became a Southern staple in the early 1920’s after chain grocery stores such as Piggly-Wiggly made canned food even cheaper and more available to working class Southerners. They were a regular feature of weekday suppers when I was growing up in the 1960s, and are considered by many to be a soul food classic.

