Mom’s Chocolate Pie
By Yankee Magazine|Jul 17 2005|
This recipe comes from my mother and I like it because it is GOOD. It’s about 100 years old and has stood the test of time in our family.
Yield
1 pie
Ingredients
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup cream
1/2 cup whole milk
4 eggs, separated
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon pure vanilla
1 baked pie crust; should be of the deep-dish variety
Instructions
Mix sugar, cocoa, flour, and salt and set aside. Separate eggs, reserving whites in a clean, fat-free chilled bowl. Mix cream and whole milk with sugar, cocoa, flour and salt and cook over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened. Beat egg yolks until thick. Add small amount of chocolate mixture to egg yolks and stir. Then add egg yolk mixture to chocolate mixture and cook over medium low heat until very thick. Remove from heat, add one tablespoon butter and the vanilla. Stir, and then let cool.
While this cools, make meringue for top of pie.
4 egg whites
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Mix egg whites and cream of tartar in chilled mixing bowl until foamy and then slowly add sugar until stiff (but not dry) peaks form.
Pour chocolate mixture into baked pie crust, and top with meringue. Bake in 350 degree oven until meringue is just lightly browned. Cool before serving.
I have been searching for a pie recipe that was as good as or better than my mom’s, and I tried this recipe and was delighted. As everyone knows, no one can cook as our moms do,but since my home burned I have been searching for recipes to replace the ones I lost. This one fills that need,excellent. It is hard to find recipes from the 50s and 60s. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.