Chocolate Pie

Like most Southern women, I think my Mama’s cooking is the best. My all-time favorite recipe that Mama (Carolyn Woolard) makes is chocolate pie. Everyone who tastes it also agrees that it is a delicacy beyond compare. She found the recipe about 40 years ago in a cookbook published by “Progressive Farmer.” Thanksgivings and Christmases would not have been the same without that pie. Sometimes Granddaddy would not even bother to cut a piece. He’d just dig right in with his fork and wouldn’t come up until the whole thing was gone!

Today, she makes them more often because, as you can see, my sons Landon, 6, and Matthew, 2, love them as well. But, no matter how often Mama makes them, the family never tires of them. I’m sure generations to come will enjoy this recipe.

Elizabeth Adams
Bath
Tideland EMC

3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
2 egg yolks
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 nine-inch pastry shell, baked

MERINGUE
Mix flour, cocoa, sugar and salt. Stir in egg yolks; add milk. Cook in a double boiler until mixture is thick. Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla. Pour into pastry shell and top with meringue. Bake for 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees.

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