Chocolate Pie

Ingredients

• one cup cream
• half cup sugar
• a little block of chocolate
• three eggs
• half cup butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil cream, sugar, and chocolate together; pour over beaten eggs and butter.

2. 2

   Bake in an under crust only.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chocolate Pie. — Four tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, one pint of water, yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of corn starch, six tablespoons of sugar; boil until thick, adding one teaspoonful of extract. Bake the crust ; pour in chocolate ; beat whites of the eggs with one cup of sugar ; spread over top and brown. — Miss Yandenbrook. Chocolate Pie. — Yolks of four eggs, one cup sweet milk, two cups sugar, three tablespoonfuls of chocolate, one tablespoon- ful of flour mixed with the sugar, butter size of a walnut ; stir all together and cook till it thickens, then pour into crusts and bake ; when well done add the, meringue. Makes two pies. — Mrs. G. M. Savage. Chocolate Pies. — Four eggs, two cups sugar, half cup butter, four tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, one and one-half pints of cream or rich milk, vanilla to taste ; cream butter and sugar, add to it three tablespoonfuls of sifted flour, then add well beaten yolks of eggs, chocolate and cream. Bake in rich puff paste. Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff froth; add three table- HOW WE COOK IN TENNESSEE. 195 spoons sugar and spread on pies. Return to oven and brown. Chocolate Pies. — Four eggs, one cup sugar, three heaping teaspoons flour, one pint milk and nearly two squares of Bak- er's chocolate; melt and stir it in the eggs and sugar; it mixes best this way; flavor with vanilla. Chocolate Pie. — Boil together one cup cream, half cup sugar, a little block of chocolate; pour this over three eggs

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