Low-fat Orange Custard Pie

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 1/4 cups orange juice
• 1 cup skim milk
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1/2 cup sugar (scant)
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 packet gelatin, unflavored
• to taste graham cracker pie crust
• 2 oranges, sectioned
• to taste confectioners' sugar (optional)

Recipe

• 1 in a heavy saucepan, combine orange juice, milk, yolks, sugar, cornstarch and gelatin until blended. cook, stirring over medium heat until mixture is smooth and begins to boil.
• 2 remove from heat, and pour into pie crust when cool.
• 3 chill for at least one hour or until firm.
• 4 before serving: for pith-free orange sections, place unpeeled orange on cutting board. with a sharp paring knife, slice off the top and bottom of the orange, cutting deep enough so that no pith shows.
• 5 sit the orange on its bottom, and working from the top downwards, shave off the sides of the oranges, cutting deep enough to remove all pith.
• 6 when the orange is completely peeled, cut between the membranes that divide the segments so that again, no pith or membrane shows.
• 7 lay orange sections on top of pie in concentric circles and serve.
• 8 just before serving, sprinkle orange segments heavily with confectioners' sugar.
• 9 place 4 to 6 inches under preheated broiler until browned.