Nell B. Nichols

Choconut Pie Shell

Preparation info
  • Makes

    one

    ( 9 ″ ) pie shell.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook
Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

  • About

A chocolate-flavored pecan pastry

Ingredients

  • 1 c. sifted flour
  • 2 oz. sweet cooking chocolate, grated or ground
  • ¼

Method

  • Stir together flour, grated chocolate and salt. Cut in shortening with two knives or blend with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Combine milk and vanilla; add gradually to dry mixture, tossing lightly with a fork. Form into ball.
  • Roll out on lightly floured pastry cloth to ⅛" thickness. Cut in circle 1½" larger than inverted 9" pie pan. Fit loo