Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie

Submitted by Tracey D Mizell

"Now THIS is a chocolate pie."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 8 pieces
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs, separated (yolks for filling, whites for meringue)
• 5 tablespoons flour
• 1⁄4 cup butter

• For Meringue

• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• salt
• 1 pie shell, baked

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In large saucepan, mix together sugar, cocoa, and flour.
3. Add milk and cook over low heat until thick.
4. Beat egg yolks well.
5. Add egg yolks and butter to milk mixture and cook one minute more.
6. Cool.
7. Pour into baked pie shell.
8. Beat eggs whites until stiff, adding 3 Tbsp of sugar graduaally as you beat.
9. When stiff peaks form, gently pour on the COOLED filling.
10. Bake in a 350° oven until meringue is light golden brown on its peaks.
11. Enjoy.