Chocolate pie #1

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity 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

Directions

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, .

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