Pudding for Banana Cream Pie or Coconut Cream Pie

(This is mom's blamange cream recipie, also good for cream puffs)

½ cup sugar
½ tsp. Salt
3 Tbls. Cornstarch
2 ½ cup milk

Mix the sugar, salt, and cornstarch together in a saucepan. Add the milk and cook over medium heat till the mixture thickens. Remove from heat and add 3 beaten egg yolks very slowly or you will have lumps of egg. Mix well and cook approximately 5 minutes longer. Add 1 Tbls. Butter and 1 tsp. Vanilla.

For Banana cream pie; line a baked pie crust or a pie pan covered in vanilla wafers with sliced bananas. Pour pudding on top and cool. Top with whipped cream.

For Coconut cream pie; Add ½ cup sweetened coconut to the pudding and combine. Pour into a baked pie shell. Cool; top with whipped cream.