Virginia Chocolate-Pecan Mousse

No candidate for the Weight-Watchef’s magazine, this is a superhigh for dessert heads. Chocolate is the all-time front-runner in popularity polls and seems to have delighted everyone who’s ever tasted it—from the South American Indians to present-day Japanese. Rich desserts are a hallmark of Southern cookery, and this one is adapted from a recipe in Virginia Cookery—Past and Present, a collection of recipes donated by women from all over the state to the Olivet Episcopal Church Fund