Description:

recipe handed down two generations

Source:

Deborah Mitchell

Serves/Makes:1 pie

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 cups (350 ml) milk
• 1 cup (225 ml) sugar
• 3 tbsp (45 ml) flour
• 1/2 stick margarine
• 3 tbsp (45 ml). cocoa
• 3 egg yolks (save egg whites for meringue)
• 1 tsp (5 ml). vanilla flavoring
• 1 cooked pie shell
• Meringue:
• 3 egg whites
• 1/8 cup (30 ml) sugar

Preparation

• Combine all ingredients except vanilla.
• Stir continously over medium heat until thick.
• Remove from heat and add vanilla; stir.
• Place in cooked pie shell.
• Add meringue being sure to spread to touch edge of pie shell.
• Place in oven at 400 degrees (200 C.) until top is desired browness.
• Meringue:
• Beat egg whites at high speed until desired stiffness.
• Add sugar; mix until blended.

Comments

I learned to make this pie from my mother, who learned to make it from her mother.I get many requests for this at social functions.