Chocolate Pie

Ingredients

• Yolks of 4 eggs
• and white of 1 egg
• % cup of butter
• 2 teacups of granulated sugar
• 4 large spoons of cream or milk
• enough chocolate to color it dark
• a dash of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Have a rich pastry, fill with this mixture; cook till done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 122. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Pie. Two blocks of chocolate, 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons butter, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 teacups cream, 2 tablespoons cornstarch or flour. Beat yolks light, add sugar, butter, chocolate, cream and corn- starch. Put in double boiler and cook until tolerably stiff. Have 2 crusts baked. When cold spread on the chocolate. Beat whites stiff with 4 tablespoons granulated sugar. Meringue pies and set in oven to brown. Pastry. One and one-half ciipfuls of flour, 1 tablespooonful lard, % tea- spoon salt, % cup of ice water. This quantity makes one pie. Jam Pie. One coffee cup of jam, 1 cup cream, 1 dessertspoon butter, 1 heaping teaspoon cornstarch. Mix well and put this filling in an uncooked crust with strips of pastry on top. Cook in moderate oven. Franootellis. Line a pie tin with puff paste and fill with this mixture. Three tablespoons cornstarch, mixed with 1 saltspoon of salt, 4 eggs, 1^ cups granulated sugar. Add 1 pint of boiling water and boil 5 min- utes. Take from fire, add the juice and grated rind of 2 lemons. When cool add the well-beaten yolks of 4 eggs, then the whites beaten to a froth, folding it lightly. Fill the pie pan, which is lined with the puff paste, and brown quickly in a hot oven. Serve cold. 206 KENTUCKY RBK3EIPT BOOK. Cream Pie. One pint of cream, 2 pints new milk, 2 coffee cups granulated sugar, % cup butter, % coffee cup cornstarch, 6 eggs, 1 dessertspoon vanilla. Put cream and milk in double boiler; when it comes to boiling point pour over eggs and sugar beaten to a cream, stir well and return to saucepan, then add cornstarch dissolved in some of the milk. Cook until consistency of mush, remove from fire, add butter and vanilla. Have 3 baked crusts, fill with the mixture. Put the 6 unbeaten whites in bowl and add 3 small teacups granulated sugar, beat until very stiff, beat in light teaspoon vanilla. Meringue pies, set in oven and cook a chestnut brown. One-third of recipe may be used for 1 pie. Whipped Cream Pie. Make a rich pastry and line pie pan; set in oven and bake. While warm cover with jelly about % of an inch thick. Have 1 large coffee cup of cream, sweeten and flavor to taste, whip very stiff and spread on jelly. Serve immediately. Chocolate Pie. Yolks of 4 eggs and white of 1 egg, % cup of butter, 2 teacups of granulated sugar, 4 large spoons of cream or milk, enough choco- late to color it dark, a dash of nutmeg

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