Chocolate Pie with Meringue

Name: Chocolate Pie with Meringue
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Fusion
Ingredients: chocolate unsweetened; milk; flour; sugar; salt; egg yolks; butter; vanilla extract; pie shell (9 inch); egg whites; sugar; cream of tartar

Submitted by puttytat72

YIELD

1 pie

PREP

10 min

COOK

30 min

READY

40 min

Ingredients

OUNCES UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE
unsweetened

CUPS MILK
scalded

⅓

CUP ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR
sifted

CUP SUGAR

TEASPOON SALT

EACH EGG YOLKS
slightly beaten *

TABLESPOONS BUTTER

TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT

EACH PIE SHELL (9 INCH)
baked

EACH EGG WHITES
stiffly beaten *

TABLESPOONS SUGAR

TEASPOON CREAM OF TARTAR

Directions

NOTE: If using Hershey’s chocolate, increase sugar to at least 1¼ cups.

Melt chocolate in scalded milk. Mix flour, sugar and salt; gradually add milk and chocolate. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Cook 2 minutes; remove from heat. Add small amount of chocolate/milk mixture to egg yolks; stir into remaining hot mixture; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add butter and vanilla; cool slightly. Pour into baked pastry shell. Cool. Cover with meringue. Bake in moderate oven, 350 deg., for 12 to 15 min.