Chocolate soft pie

The first thing i did was, make my pie crust. I did this by mixing all my dry ingredients, and then cutting in the lard. After i cut in my lard, i added some water to get the right consistency. When i had the perfect consistency, i seperated my crust into two seperate balls. I rolled the balls out to make a crust a couple of inches bigger that the circumferance of the pie pan. After laying the crust in the pan, and putting it in the oven to cook, i proceded to make my pudding. The first thing i did to make my pudding was, seperate out all of my ingredients, micing my dry ingredients into a pan and mixing it. Then i started to heat up the mixture and stir in the milk and the chocolate. Once the mixture thickend, and came to a boil, i used the mixture to temper in my eggs. After my eggs were mixed in, i took it off the heat, and mixed in the butter and vanilla. I then spread the pudding into my cooked crust, and let it cool. The last thing i made was the meringue, for which i beat my eggs till they were sort of bubbly. Then i added vanilla and cream of tarter and beat them till they were soft peaks. The last step to my meringue was to add the sugar, and beat till they were stiff peaks. Once the meringue was done, i spread it on the pie, and cooked the pie some more untill the meringue was brown.


I would say overall my pie turned out very well. The pudding was very sweet, and smooth. The crust turned out very flakey, and almost buttery. The meringue also turned out very well, it was the perfect color of golden brown. The pie was overall very tasty, and the combonation of flakey crust, and soft pudding made for a perfect texture combonation. I would recomend this recipe to anyone!