Ingredients
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 qt milk
6 tbsp cornstarch
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup butter (or margarine)
1 tsp vanilla extract
16 oz filo pastry sheets
12 lb sweet butter; melted
sugar, confectioners
How to prepare
Beat eggs in saucepan; add sugar and beat thoroughly; slowly add milk. cook over med heat, stirring occasionally.
Dissolve cornstarch in water; slowly add to milk mixture before it comes to a boil. Cook until mixture thickens and comes to a hard boil. Remove from heat; add 1/4 cup butter and vanilla.
Cut pastry sheets in to thirds or into 9×5″ pieces. Brush pastry with hot melted butter. Place about 1 tbsp custard filling at bottom left corner of strip and fold the right bottom corner over it into a triangle. Continue folding back and forth into a triangle and brushing with butter to end of strip.
Place triangles, cut side down, on greased cookie sheet. Brush tops with melted butter and bake at 375