From what I hear you are either a custard fan or not.  I grew up with flan and desserts of the sort but for some reason didn’t care for custard until much later in life.  I used the following recipe to make this for a friend’s father whose favorite dessert is this.

Ingredients

• 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
• 3 eggs, beaten
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg white
• 2 1/2 cups scalded milk
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
2. Mix together eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Stir well. Blend in the scalded milk. For more yellow color, add few drops yellow food coloring.
3. Line pie pan with pastry, and brush inside bottom and sides of shell with egg white to help prevent a soggy crust. Pour custard mixture into piecrust. Sprinkle with nutmeg.
4. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on rack and give some time to set.

***This was the first time I made this and so being the type of person I am I made a second pie to taste test it myself before giving what I made to someone else.  However, I decided to put a thin layer of chocolate on the bottom so that others in my household would partake of it too.  I had to increase the baking time by about 5-7 minutes.  The custard filling came out exactly as I expected and the chocolate, although I even questioned throwing that in there, was really good.  Even my husband who doesn’t care for custard thought it was a nice touch.

This goes to show you: don't shift the pie while it is baking. The nutmeg will move over! Errr. . .

. . .with the chocolate layer . . .

From what the recipe stated each slice (8 per pie) has approximately 225 calories (without chocolate).