Chocolate Pie

Ingredients

• Piece of butter size of an egg
• Y± cake Walter Baker's chocolate
• yolks of 6 eggs
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk or cream
• 1 tablespoon corn starch
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cook until thick, pour on crusts and bake.

2. 2

   Beat whites of the eggs to stiff froth, add 3 tablespoons of pulverized sugar.

3. 3

   Whip this in well, spread on pies and brown slightly.

4. 4

   This makes 3 pies.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE PIE. One tablespoon of grated chocolate, 1 pint of boiling water. Let it simmer for a few minutes, then take the yolks of 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of corn starch, 6 tablespoons of sugar; stir this together and boil until thick like boiled custard. Make a crust as for pies ; cook it, then put in the boiled choco- late. Beat the whites of 2 eggs to a stiff froth; cover the top and brown.— Mrs. 0. P. Shell. SWEET POTATO CUSTARD. One pint mashed steamed potatoes, 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup sweet milk, butter size of an egg, % teaspoon baking powder added in last minute. Flavor with nutmeg. — Mrs. W. E. Moss. CHOCOLATE PIE. Piece of butter size of an egg, Y± cake Walter Baker's chocolate, yolks of 6 eggs, 3 cups sugar, 1 cup milk or cream, 1 tablespoon corn starch, 1 teaspoon vanilla

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