Black Bottom Pie

Name: Black Bottom Pie
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: pinch salt; 1 cup heavy cream; 4 egg whites; 2 tablespoons dark rum; 6 tablespoons melted butter; 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar; ½ cup superfine sugar; 3½ cups milk; 1 ounce coarsely grated semisweet chocolate; 3 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate; 8 egg yolks, beaten (save the whites); 35 crisp ginger cookies, ginger snap type (1¾ cups when ground); 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 1 cup sugar; 2 pinches salt; 1 tablespoon gelatin soaked in 1¾ cup warm water

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Jeremiah Tower Cooks

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2002

About

Needs no comment. Or rather, I can’t think of any that would do justice to this perfect pie. Except to say that I would change the phrase “as American as apple pie” to “as American as black bottom pie.”

Ingredients

The Crust

35 crisp ginger cookies, ginger snap type (1¾ cups when ground)
6 tablespoons melted butter

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Soak the gelatin in the water and keep warm.

Make the Crust

Roll out the cookies or break them up in a food processor until they are coarse crumbs. Put them in a bowl and mix in the melted butter. Line a