How I made Chocolate Meringue Pie my bitch.

I love pie.  I grew up in a pie loving house hold.  I grew up in the South where numerous places were famous for pies.  I love to make pies.  Especially chocolate meringue pie.  However, it has been my nemesis for many years, until I perfected this recipe.  It is the only concoction that will set up perfectly for me, every single time.  I'm not sure why, but by the time you pull the warm pie out of the oven with the gorgeous meringue on top, it's a pretty impressive piece of food and it happens to make everyone around you happy - men, women, children, everyone smiles their entire way through the pie.

My Daddy loves pie too, particularly chocolate meringue pie, so when I went home to Center this past weekend, I surprised him by smuggling him this pie.  It made him very happy and he rewarded me with pork chops, pork ribs and steak. 

Ingredients:

Filling
2 cups white sugar
1/4 Flour
5 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
12 ounces evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 egg yolks (reserve your whites for your meringue)
1/2 stick butter, sliced into small pieces
1 deep dish, 9 inch premade pie crust (yes, I cheat - it tastes the same and 2 are only $2)

Meringue
4 egg whites
1/4 cup white sugar

Cooking it up:

Sift together  the flour, sugar and cocoa powder. 

Add the evaporated milk.

Sort your yolks and whites.

Add your yolks the mixture.

Mix it all together.

Add the butter, put over medium high heat and whisk constantly until the butter is melted.

Pour mixture into crust.

Bake in a preheated oven (350) for about 45 minutes, or until not wiggly. 

Put egg whites into your mixing bowl. 

Mix until frothy and slightly peaky.  Add sugar.

Mix on high until glossy stiff peaks are formed.

Spread on pie - make sure the meringue touches all the edges of the pie. 

Make your meringue textured so that there are peaks.  Put back in the oven at 350.  Brown.

Ta Da! Perfection.