Chocolate Pie

Ingredients

• one-half teacup of chocolate
• one cupful water
• butter the size of an egg
• one tablespoonful vanilla
• one cup sugar
• the beaten yolks of two eggs
• two tablespoonfuls corn starch
• dissolved in a little water

Method

1. 1

   After baking the crust, mix chocolate, water, butter, vanilla, sugar, and yolks.

2. 2

   Cook until thick, pour into crust, and top with beaten egg whites mixed with sugar.

3. 3

   Brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHOCOLATE PIE. Mrs. M. A. Col- lins, Ontario, Cal.— Four tablespoons grated chocolate, one pint water, yolks of two eggs, two tablespoons corn starch, six tablespoons sugar. Boil until thick. Whip whites of eggs and spread on top when baked; put into the oven long enough to brown a little. NO. 77. CHOCOLATE PIE. Mrs. F. A. Holbrook, Santa Ana, Cal.— After crust is baked grate one-half teacup of chocolate, and put in a pan with one cupful water, butter the size of an egg, one tablespoonful vanilla, one cup sugar, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and two tablespoonfuls corn starch dissolved in a little water

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