Holiday Eating Tips.

[anthrobabe]

For your Aunt Mary and her chocolate pies.

Do you have her recipe?

I think so-- but it's the way she did it-- ordinary really -- the love or magic came in that she knew they were going to be 'stolen' but she did it anyway. She made her own pie crust-- that might be the most fantastic part. We were all spoiled by our aunts and uncles. We had an uncle who let us chew tobacco with him (yes it made us sick-that was the point).

I found this on cooks (dot) com and it really looks and 'feels' correct-- I do not remember coconut on the chocolate pies-- and not sure about the lemon juice either-- I don't remember her ever having lemon juice-- hmmmm
need to get with mom and see if she has it written down or who does have it.

CHOCOLATE MERINGUE PIE   

PIE:

2 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. chocolate
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 c. milk
3 egg yolks
1 tbsp. butter

Blend dry ingredients. Make paste of egg yolks and add milk gradually. Bring to boil. Cook until thick. Stir in vanilla and butter.

MERINGUE:

3 egg whites
6 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
1 c. coconut

Beat egg whites until stiff. Slowly sprinkle sugar. Add remaining ingredients. Bake at 425 degrees for 5-7 minutes.

(note when it says make paste of egg yolks what it means is make a paste with the dry ingredients and then slowly add milk) I do remember her doing this- when I got old enough to realize that they just didn't magically appear-- it takes time to do slowly. I can almost promise that the recipe she would have used came from a box of cornstarch-- I seem to remember a piece of cardboard with the recipe mom had at one time.

[Opsa]

- but it's the way she did it-- ordinary really -- the love or magic came in that she knew they were going to be 'stolen' but she did it anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, that kind of love is magic.

_{Chocolate is another form.}

[pieces o nine]

Family recipes..beloved as much for the maker (if not more-so) than the food.

My maternal grandmother had an old-world Christmas bread recipe that I wanted to make properly. I could never get her to reveal more than, "First you take your sweet-roll dough..."




That pie sounds very good, anthrobabe.
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