The Marty

I was bothering everyone I know about pie ideas, as usual, and Marty gave me a good one. He told me to make something with custard and graham crackers. He said I had to call it The Marty. It was such a simple idea, and one I'm a big fan of. I had to make it different from the straight-up custard pie I made earlier, so I decided to make an Eggnog Custard Pie.

I made the graham cracker crust with the same recipe as many before, and I put it in my new tart pan. It worked quite nicely, I think, but the very wet filling soaked through it. I think it worked pretty well anyhow.

4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 (12oz) can evaporated milk
2/3 cup water
1/3 cup bourbon
pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix the eggs and sugar together, perhaps with an electric beater. Then add the rest of the ingredients, reserving a bit of nutmeg to sprinkle on top. Mix to fully combine, then pour very slowly into the crust. It's quite wet, so you'll want to put it on a cookie sheet or sheet of foil with the edges turned up; some of the filling oozed out of the pan as it cooked. Bake at 350F for 55 minutes, until mostly set.

As Emily says, it tastes like Christmas. One thing I might try next time is to separate the eggs and beat the whites to soft peaks, whisking them back in at the end. It should make the pie fluffier and a bit less wet in the end. Additionally, I'm not entirely certain why there's water in the recipe. I might try to fudge that out with something much more delicious.