Title: The Colonial Innkeepers Pie
Categories: Pies & past, Post to bak, To post
Yield: 6 Servings

---The Pie---
1 c Flour
3/4 c Sugar
1 ts Baking Powder
1/2 ts Salt
1/3 c Butter Or Margarine
1/2 c Milk
1/2 ts Vanilla
2 Eggs
1 Pie Crust (9 Inch)*; unbaked
---The Sauce---
2 Squares (1 Oz.) Unsweetened
-Baking Chocolate
3/4 c Boiling Water
1 c Sugar
1/3 c Butter Or Margarine
2 ts Vanilla
1/2 c Chopped Nuts
---For Garnish---
Shaved Chocolate
Whipped Cream Or Vanilla Ice
-Cream

*Use glass pie plate.

FOR THE PIE:

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Combine the butter,
milk and vanilla and add dry ingredients to this. Beat 2 minutes. Add the
eggs and beat 2 minutes more. Pour into unbaked pie shell.

FOR THE SAUCE:

Melt chocolate in boiling water. Add sugar and bring to a boil. Remove from
heat and add butter and vanilla. Pour sauce over pie batter; sprinkle
nutmeats over the top. Bake at 350° F 55 to 60 minutes or until done.
Garnish with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and shavings of chocolate.

Source: "Mountain Measures" -- Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974

Recipe by: Mrs. William E. Hamb Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #669 by Bill
Spalding on Jul 13, 1997