Macy’s Chocolate Meringue Pie

Name: Macy’s Chocolate Meringue Pie
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Pinch salt; 1 tablespoon flour; 1½ teaspoons vanilla; 3 tablespoons cornstarch; 3 egg whites; 6 tablespoons sugar; ¾ cup (151 g) sugar; 2½ cups (590 ml) milk; 3 egg yolks; 1 recipe Pie Pastry for 8 ounces (225 g) of dough, prebaked; 3 ounces (84 g) unsweetened chocolate

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bill Neal's Southern Cooking

By Bill Neal

Published 1985

About

This was my favorite dessert as a child, and it used to be quite common at church suppers, school fairs, and cake sales. I rarely see it anymore; the South’s taste in chocolate has followed the rest of the nation’s to excess in over-rich truffles, designer brownies, and so forth.

Ingredients

1 recipe Pie Pastry for 8 ounces (225 g) of dough, prebaked

Americas
United States
Supper
Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Prepare the pie pastry and cook it until it is completely done, about 20 minutes in all. Cool on a rack.

Melt the chocolate in the double boiler over simmering water. Mix the sugar, cornstarch, flour, and salt thoroughly. Stir in the milk and cook, while stirring, until the mixture thickens. Add the melted chocolate to the sauce. Beat the egg yolks with