Cantaloupe Pie

Name: Cantaloupe Pie
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 10 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1/4 cup flour; 1 large cantaloupe, very ripe; 3/4 cup sugar, divided use; 3 large eggs, separated; 2 tablespoons butter; baked pie shell

Submitted by Steve P.

"I have not tried this. I'm posting it for a request. It looks simple and easy. A good way to use up a very ripe cantaloupe before it goes to waste too!"

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Ready In:: 1hr
Ingredients:: 6
Serves:: 10

ingredients

¹⁄₄ cup flour
1 large cantaloupe, very ripe
³⁄₄ cup sugar, divided use
3 large eggs, separated
2 tablespoons butter
baked pie shell

directions

Peel, seed, and dice melon.
In a medium sauce pan mix 1/2 the sugar with melon and cook until melon is tender and soft.
Mash melon.
Mix flour with remaining sugar; add beaten egg yolks and butter.
Mix in mashed melon.
Pour into pie shell and cover with meringue made from the egg whites sweetened to taste.
Brown meringue in oven.
Cool pie.