3/4 cup sugar

pinch salt

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 cup water

Cook, stirring constantly, until thick clear paste. Beat egg whites (2) stiff–add above mixture to this, white hot–beat 3 or 4 minutes. Add:

1/2 teaspoon almond flavoring

1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

Chill. Bake pie shell. Bake and cool. Add filling to pie shell and chill about 3 hours. Put coconut on top, then whipping cream and toasted coconut on top of cream.