Cream Pie - Banana, Chocolate, Coconut

1 baked pie shell
Mix together in a saucepan:

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup cornstarch

1/2 tsp. salt

3 cups milk
Stir constantly with a wire whip until it comes to a boil.  Slowly add a little of the hot mixture to 4 slightly beaten eggs yolks until the eggs become hot. Bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute.
Add:

2 T. butter softened

1 T. vanilla
Cool and then pour into the baked pie shell.

For banana:
 Put 2 - 3 large sliced bananas in the pie shell and then pour the cool cream mixture on top of the bananas. Top with whipped cream. Eat and enjoy!!

For chocolate:

Increase sugar to 1 cup and cornstarch to 1/3 cup.  omit butter.  Stir in 2 oz. of melted unsweetened chocolate with vanilla. Cool and then put in pie shell. Top with whipped cream. Yumm!!

For coconut:

Decrease vanilla to 2 tsp.  Stir in 3/4 cup coconut and 1/4 cup on top of whipped cream.

(Since we don't like things as sweet as the original recipes call for, this recipe's sugar measurement has been reduced from originally 2/3 c. of sugar to 1/2 c.  and the chocolate recipe was reduced from 1 1/2 c. to 1 c.  You may even want to reduce it more.) Tasty!!