astray recipes: Chocolate pie #1

Categories: Pie
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
1 cup	Sugar
⅓ cup	Flour
1 pinch	Salt
2 tablespoons	(heaping) cocoa
3	Egg yolks
½	Stick butter
2 cups	Milk
1 teaspoon	Vanilla
3	Egg whites
¼ teaspoon	Baking powder
6 tablespoons	Sugar
½ teaspoon	Vanilla

MERINGUE

Combine sugar, cocoa, flour & salt. Stir in milk. Cook & stir a few minutes. Before it thickens, stir 3-4 tablespoons into beaten egg yolks; return egg yolk mixture to cocoa mixture. Cook until it thickens. Remove from heat & add vanilla & butter. Cool. Pour into baked pie shell. Top with meringue & bake at 325 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Meringue: Beat egg whites until foamy. Add baking powder. Beat until stiff, adding sugar gradually by the spoonful. Add vanilla.

MRS. G.W. MASSEY

From <Simply Southern>, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, Helena-West Helena, AR 72390. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .

chocolate pie #1