Chocolate Meringue Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 baked pastry crust
1 c. cornstarch
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 sq. unsweetened chocolate, cut up
2 1/2 c. milk
3 egg yolk, slightly beaten
1 Tbsp. butter or margarine
2 tsp. vanilla
Basic Meringue (recipe follows)

Preparation

Prepare pastry crust according to recipe.
Combine cornstarch, sugar, salt and chocolate in a saucepan.
Stir in milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
Boil 1 minute.
Blend half the mixture into egg yolks.
Stir into mixture in saucepan; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Stir in butter or margarine and vanilla.
Cool slightly.
Pour into pastry shell and bake as directed in Basic Meringue Recipe.