Chocolate Pie for Lamandra

My good buddy Lamandra is an excellent pie maker…..peanut butter pie

is her forte. SO, my friend, this is one to add to your recipe box:

Chocolate Pie

1 refrigerated pie crust, baked and cooled 4 tbsp flour 1 cu sugar 1/4 tsp salt 2 cu milk 3 egg yolks 1/2 cu cocoa 1 tbsp butter 1 tsp vanilla

Mix and sift dry ingredients. Add milk and cook slowly over low

heat. Wisk in cocoa until well incorporated. Beat egg yolks (you

might temper them first) and stir into hot mixtures. Cook until thick

(constantly wisking is the key). Remove from heat and add butter and

vanilla and stir until melted. Cool and pour into a baked pie shell.

Meringue: 3 egg whites 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp vanilla 6 tbsp sugar

Add salt and vanilla to egg whites; beat until very foamy. Add sugar,

1 tbsp at a time. Beat until smooth and glossy. Cover the pie with

meringue and bake 10 minutes at 350 or until golden brown. Let it

cool completely before cutting into it to avoid “soupy pie…..” (but

it still tastes good that way!)