Best Pie Ever Recipe

I have seen this Filipino Recipe at EntrePinoys Atbp. http://www.mixph.com and this is worth sharing with you all. I hope you'll like it. Enjoy Baking!! :D

Ingredients:

Crust:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
2/3 cup vegetable shortening
1 piece eggyolk
1 tsp. vinegar
1/4 cup cold water

Filling:

4 cups coconut meat
1 cup coconut water
1 300 ml. can Sweetened Condensed Milk or Evaporated Milk
2/3 cup cornstarch

Procedure:

1. Blend flour and salt in a bowl. Cut in shortening using two knives or a pastry cutter. Combine yolk, vinegar and water; slowly add the liquid to the flour mixing until dough can be handled.

2. Divide dough into 2 parts with one part slightly bigger than the other. Roll bigger dough to about 2 inches larger than a 16-inch pie plate. Fit dough into a pie plate, letting sides hang. Roll out remaining dough for the crust. Set aside.

2. Combine filling ingredients in a thick saucepan. Cook stirring constantly until thickened. Cool
then pour into prepared crust. Cover with top crust; flute or crimp edges together to seal. Bake for 1 hr. at 425 degrees F.

Various Parts of Coconut have many uses and every parts of Coconut is very useful. It's the tree that provides necessities in life or simply the Tree of Life as we Filipinos call it, because of its versatility that we humans can utilized it in some manner.

The Coconut Provides Oil for cooking, frying and even to make some margarine. The coconut meat is edible and can be used fresh or dried. While desiccated Coconut can be used to produce some coconut milks. Coconut flour and chips are also developed as I have read at the wikipedia.

Coconut Water

Coconut Water is a popular drink. We call it Buko Juice, it is the liquid inside the young coconut. The more the fruit matures the water gradually became the coconut meat.

Toddy and Nectar

The toddy or tuba in Philippines is a sap derived from incising from the flower cluster of the coconut. When Fermented it becomes palm wine, coconut wine or lambanog (coconut vodka) as they call it.

Coconut Milk

Coconut Milk is called "gata" in Philippine Culture, it's the water grated from the niyog or dried coconut meat. Coconut milk is also used in preparation for dishes such as laing, ginataan and many more.

Dried Coconut Meat or niyog when grated, is often used in Philippines to add flavor to the kakanins, such as puto bungbong at bibingka, kutsinta, pichi-pichi, palitaw, etc. I will show you some pictures of kakanins that uses niyog or grated coconut.

Puto Bungbong at Bibingka

Kutsinta

Pichi Pichi