Chocolate Cream Pie



INGREDIENTS:

1 c  Sugar

1/3 c  All-purp flour or 2T cornsta

1/4 ts Salt

2 oz (1oz) sqs unsweeten chocolat

2 c  Milk

3    Slightly beaten egg yolks

2 tb butter or margarine

1 ts vanilla

1    9inch baked pastry shell

1    Recipe meringue

DIRECTIONS:

1. In Saucepan, combine sugar and salt.  Chop up unsweetened
chocolate and add with milk; gradually stir into dry mixture.
Cook and stir over medium heat till mixture boils and thickens.
Cook 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat. Stir small amounts hot
mixture into yolks; return to hot mixture; cook 2 minutes,
stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add butter and vanilla;
cool to room temperature. (To prevent a crust from forming, put
clear plastic wrap or waxed paper directly on top, touching
surface of the hot pudding clear to sides of bowl.) Pour into
baked pastry shell. meringue; Beat 3 eggs with 1/4 t cream of
tartar and 1/2 t vanilla till soft peaks form.  Gradually add
6 T sugar, beating till stiff peaks form and all sugar is
dissolved.  Spread atop pie, sealing to pastry. Bake in moderate
oven 350 deg.  about 12 to 15 minutes, or till meringue is golden.
Cool.



Chocolate Cream Pie