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Recipe: Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pie

Categories: Pie

Yield: 6 Servings

1 (9 inch) pie shell

--------------------FILLING------------------------- 1 1/4 c Sugar

      4 tb Cornstarch
      3 tb Cocoa

1/4 ts Salt
2 1/2 c Milk

      3    Egg yolks; beaten
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 tb Butter

-------------------MERINGUE------------------------

      3    Egg whites
      3 tb Sugar
      1 pn Cream of tartar

Mix together first 4 ingredients in a double boiler. Add milk and egg yolks and cook over medium heat until thick, stirring constantly. Stir in butter and vanilla. Pour into baked pie shell. Chill. Beat egg whites until stiff, gradually adding sugar and pinch of cream of tartar. Spread over cooled chocolate filling and bake at 350ø until lightly browned. Yield: 6 to 8 servings.

MONETTE MCSPADDEN (MRS. RAY)

From <Traditions: A Taste of the Good Life>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior League. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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