The colonial innkeepers pie

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity 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

Directions

*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

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