Wednesday Movie Night: One Week

I love movie nights! Megan's turn this week, with an indie offering titled 'One Week'.

"Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia."

It's kind of a love letter to Canada, which naturally means Canadian food. Which naturally means someone brought poutine, and we're all getting Tim Hortons... but besides that, Sam and I decided to take another shot at Flapper Pie... which was a dismal soggy mess last time I made it.

Flapper Pie is like a vanilla custard merangue pie of fantastic on a graeme cracker crust and one of my favorites, despite my inability to make one.

Sam, however, is a ninja.

Flapper Pie

What We Used:
Crust

• 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/3 cup butter, softened

Filling

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups milk
• 2 egg yolks, beaten
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Meringue

• 3 egg whites
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

There was a lot of me dictating to Sam today, as my foot is still resembling a softball and standing is a bit annoying.

The oven was preheated to 375 as Sam prepared the crust. All three of the crust ingredients were mixed well in a bowl. We reserved a couple tablespoons of the mix for the topping then pressed the rest into the bottom of a 9 inch pie plate, which was baked for about 8-10 minutes (depends on the heat of your oven really... )

The next bit is easy to burn, so we made sure all of our ingrediants were ready to go before we began (ie: make sure you seperate your eggs right now.)

The sugar, cornstarch, flour and salt were measured into a saucepan, then the milk was added gradually. Once the milk was in, the mixture was cooked over medium heat until thickened, stirring very frequently. It was cooked for about two minutes after coming to a boil, then some of the hot mixture was used to temper the egg yolk. The yolks were stirred into the mix and then cooked for another minute or so.

Everything was removed from heat, then the butter and vanilla was stirred in. The entire thing was cooled for about fifteen minutes before being poured into the crust. Then it was left to cool completely.

Once the thing was cool (and after a few rounds of certain video games) we made the meringue by beating the egg whites, vanilla, and 1/4 cup white sugar until they could hold a hard peak.
The meringue was spread over the cooled pie, then the reserved graeme crumbs were sprinkled over top. Then the pie was baked again at about 425 until the meringue was golden brown.

Verdict?

It was tasty! Not worthy of pictures being a messy custardy pie, but it was still very tasty!!

-Sam and Jesso