French Silk Chocolate Pie

Title: FRENCH SILK CHOCOLATE PIE

Categories: Desserts, Pies, Chocolate

Yield: 1 pie

1 Pie shell, baked and cooled

1/2 c Butter

3/4 c Sugar

1 oz Chocolate square

1 ts Vanilla

2 Eggs

Whipped cream and walnuts

- for topping, optional

NOTE: the book did not specify what type of chocolate to use.

Make your favorite single 8 inch pie shell.

Cream butter, add sugar slowly, creaming well. Blend in melted and cooled

chocolate and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 5 minutes after

each addition. With electric mixer use medium speed. Turn into cooled,

1 to 2 hours. Before serving top with whipped

cream and walnuts, if desired.

100 Prize Winning Recipes, from Pillsbury's

3rd Grand National

contest. First edition, 1952.

Comment in book: submitted by Mrs. K. E. Cooper, Silver Spring, Maryland.

1,000 for this recipe.

Typed by Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. 1994. --