Name: Black Bottom Pie
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2½ tablespoons plain flour; 75 g (3 oz) caster sugar, vanilla if possible; 23 cm (9-inch) shortcrust pastry case, baked completely; 2 tablespoons cold water; 1½ teaspoons gelatine; 3 tablespoons rum or cognac; 2 tablespoons cocoa powder; a pinch of cream of tartar; 150 ml (5 fl oz) carton of double cream; 3 eggs, separated, plus 1 extra egg yolk; 400 ml (14 fl oz) milk; 125 g (4 oz) plain dessert chocolate, chopped into small bits; grated chocolate; 1 tablespoon soft dark brown sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

Basic recipe: American Shortcrust Pastry or Shortcrust Pastry

Recipes for Black Bottom Pie — a creamy chocolate layer topped with a rum flavoured mousse — began to appear in American cookbooks around the turn of the century. It is not surprising that it is still in demand. See for a note on vanilla sugar.