Chocolate Meringue Pie

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 oz. unsweetened chocolate

  or Mom used 2 heaping tbsp. Nestle’s Tollhouse Cocoa (about 1/3 cup)
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
• 2 cups milk

  scalded
• 4 large eggs

  separated
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup cold milk
• 5 tbsp. cornstarch

  or ½ cup UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour
• 1 baked pie crust

Instructions

• 1 Melt chocolate (if using unsweetened chocolate).
• 2 Scald the milk in a small saucepan over low heat.
• 3 Add granulated sugar and butter and cornstarch or flour mixed with cold milk.
• 4 Cook over low heat stirring constantly.
• 5 When mixture begins to thicken, add chocolate (or cocoa), then the beaten egg
  yolks and salt.
• 6 Cook until the mixture is thick and starch is cooked.
• 7 Beat thoroughly with electric mixer.
• 8 Add vanilla, let cool and pour into pie crust which has been baked.
• 9 Pile high with meringue made of the egg whites beaten stiff and ½ cup of
  granulated sugar.
• 10 Bake in slow oven 300° for 15-20 minutes, not allowing the meringue to become
  brown.
• 11 Serve cold.
• 12 Garnish with chocolate shavings and chocolate bars, if desired.

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