Libbie's Black Bottom Pie

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 cups milk, scalded
• 4 egg yolks, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 (6 ounce) package chocolate chips
• 1 (9 inch) pastry shells, baked and cooled
• 1 (1/4 ounce) envelope unflavored gelatin
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 4 egg whites
• 1/2 cup sugar

Recipe

• 1 combine 1/2 cup sugar and cornstarch in the top of a double boiler.
• 2 slowly add scalded milk to beaten egg yolks; stir into sugar mixture.
• 3 cook and stir in top of double boiler over hot, but not boiling, water until custard coats spoon.
• 4 remove from heat and add vanilla to 1 cup of the custard.
• 5 add the chocolate chips and stir until melted.
• 6 pour this mixture into the bottom of the baked and cooled pie shell; chill.
• 7 meanwhile soften gelatin in cold water; add remaining hot custard; stir until dissolved. chill until slightly thick.
• 8 beat egg whites until soft peaks form; beat in 1/2 cup sugar and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
• 9 fold in the custard gelatin mixture.
• 10 pile over chocolate layer; chill until set.