astray recipes: The colonial innkeepers pie

Categories: Pies & past; Post to bak; To post
Yield: 6 Servings

Measure	Ingredient
	---The Pie---
1 cup	Flour
¾ cup	Sugar
1 teaspoon	Baking Powder
½ teaspoon	Salt
⅓ cup	Butter Or Margarine
½ cup	Milk
½ teaspoon	Vanilla
2	Eggs
1	Pie Crust (9 Inch)*; unbaked -The Sauce---
2	Squares (1 Oz.) Unsweetened Baking Chocolate
¾ cup	Boiling Water
1 cup	Sugar
⅓ cup	Butter Or Margarine
2 teaspoons	Vanilla
½ cup	Chopped Nuts -For Garnish---
	Shaved Chocolate
	Whipped Cream Or Vanilla Ice Cream

*Use glass pie plate.

FOR THE PIE:

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Combine the butter, milk and vanilla and add dry ingredients to this. Beat 2 minutes. Add the eggs and beat 2 minutes more. Pour into unbaked pie shell.

FOR THE SAUCE:

Melt chocolate in boiling water. Add sugar and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Pour sauce over pie batter; sprinkle nutmeats over the top. Bake at 350° F 55 to 60 minutes or until done.

Garnish with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and shavings of chocolate.

Source: "Mountain Measures" -- Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974 Recipe by: Mrs. William E. Hamb Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #669 by Bill Spalding <billspa@...> on Jul 13, 1997

the colonial innkeepers pie