Chocolate Cream Pie & Meringue

Old fashioned chocolate cream pie recipes with meringues. Ideal for fundraiser events these homemade chocolate cream pies are simple to make.

Line a pie plate with rich pie crust, putting on an extra edge of crust the same as for custard pie. Fill with the chocolate filling made after the following recipe. Bake in a hot oven until crust is done; remove, and when cool, cover with a meringue (see below) and brown very slowly in moderate oven.

Meringue

• 2 eggs (whites),
• Pinch of salt,
• 4 level tablespoonfuls of sugar,
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla.

Add salt to eggs and beat in a large shallow dish with fork or egg-whip until stiff and flaky and dish can be turned upside down. Beat in the sugar slowly, then the vanilla, and beat until the dish can be turned upside down.