CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE
- 3 squares chocolate
- ½ lb. (1 cup) sugar
- 1 oz. (1 heaping tablespoonful) cornstarch
- 3 eggs
- Pinch salt
- ¾ pint (1½ cups) milk
- ½ teaspoonful lemon extract
- ½ teaspoonful vanilla extract
- Some pie crust
Bake a pie crust in a fireproof pie-plate. Grate the chocolate into a casserole, stir in the sugar, cornstarch, yolks of eggs, salt, and milk. Cook till thick, stirring constantly; then add the extracts. Pour into the prepared crust, cover with a meringue made by beating up the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth and adding two heaping tablespoonfuls of sugar and half a teaspoonful of vanilla extract to them.
Set in the oven to brown.