Holiday Recipes ~~ Chocolate Pie

Chocolate Pie

Filling:

1 C Sugar

6 T flour

1/4 t salt

2 T cocoa

2 egg yolks

2 C milk

2 T butter

1 t vanilla

Mix dry ingredients together;  combine egg yolks & 1 c milk in a pan, then add dry ingredients.  Add other cup of milk and cook over medium heat until thickened, stirring constantly.   Remove from heat, stir in butter and vanilla.  Pour into cooked pie shell, top with meringue & put under broiler until meringue is slightly browned, watching all the time because it will brown quickly

Meringue:

3 egg whites

6 T sugar

Beat until egg whites are peaked, adding sugar gradually during beating.    Put all the way to the edges of the pie crust.  

Big thanks to Andy Holcomb (DeAnn's husband) for this recipe.  It is as good as my mom's but mom never used a recipe so I could not learn from her.  I never had her cooking instincts.    The pie, to me, is perfect when the meringue is lightly browned with little beads on it and my favorite piece is the 1st one, when it is slightly warm.   Then my favorite piece is the rest of the pie.   This is my favorite dessert, hands down.