Put milk in a big skillet to heat up.

In seperate bowl mix sugar, flour & salt, set aside.

Separate eggs. Set aside the whites for use later in meringue. Beat the yolks add a little of the flour & sugar mixture to the yolks. Mix.

Take the sugar/flour mixture add 1/2 to 1 cup of the hot milk to the mixture &mix, then add the egg mixture to it and mix real good, add to the hot milk. Cook stirring continuously till thick remove from heat add butter & vanilla mix till butter is melted then add coconut pour into a baked pie shell.

Beat the egg whites till stiff add a tablespoon or two of sugar & teaspoon of vanilla and beat till you can make peaks. Put on the pie make peaks sprinkle coconut on top, put in oven on broil watch very closely and remove when it is barely brown.

This is the Coconut Pie now for the Chocolate Pie all you need to do is add your cocoa to your sugar & flour mixture and mix then follow the direction. Omit the coconut in pie and on top of pie.