Mama's chocolate pie
1 Servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1 | Baked pie shell; 8 or 9 in. | |
½ | cup | Cocoa |
1½ | cup | Sugar |
¼ | cup | Flour |
3 | Eggs; separated | |
2 | cups | Milk |
½ | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Method: Sift cocoa, sugar, and flour together. Separate eggs; set egg whites aside for meringue. Add egg yolks to milk and wisk until well blended. Add milk mixture to flour mixture a little at a time, wisking until well blended. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with rubber spatula, until thickened. Remove from heat; add vanilla and a lump of butter or margarine. Pour into prepared pie shell. Beat egg whites with ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar until starting to firm up; add 4 tablespoons of sugar and beat until soft peaks form. Put on top of chocolate mixture in pie pan. Brown at 325 until meringue is nicely browned.
Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest Volume 98 #027 by Minelle Paloff <cen17268@...> on Jan 16, 1998