Old Fashioned Homemade Chocolate Pie

Old Fashioned Homemade Chocolate Pie

Ingredients:

• 1-1/4 cup of sugar
• 1/2 cup of plain flour
• 1/4 cup of cocoa
• dash of salt
• 4 egg yolks
• 2 cups of milk
• 1/4 cup of butter
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 1-9" pastry shell baked

Instructions:

1. Bake pie crust until golden
2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a sauce pan; set aside.
3. Combine milk and egg yolks.
4. Stir milk and egg yolks into mixture; add butter.
5. Cook over medium heat, and stir constantly until mix thickens and boils.
6. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla; spoon into pastry shell.

You can put a meringue on top if you want, but this is only optional using the egg whites from eggs used for pie.

original recipe: http://www.grouprecipes.com/96511/old-fashioned-homemade-chocolate-pie.html