Black Bottom Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sq. unsweetened chocolate
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 c. cold water
1 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
dash of salt
1 c. whipping cream
2 c. milk
4 eggs, separated
1 tsp. vanilla
1 baked pastry shell
1 Tbsp. rum flavoring
1/8 tsp. cream of tartar

Preparation

Melt chocolate.
Soften gelatin in cold water.
Mix 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch and salt in pan.
Stir in milk; cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened.
Beat egg yolks.
Stir hot custard, slowly, into egg yolks.
Add gelatin. Strain into 4-cup measure.
Spoon 1 cup custard back into saucepan; blend in chocolate and vanilla.
Pour chocolate mixture into pastry shell. Chill.
Stir rum flavoring into remaining custard.
Cool.
Beat egg whites with cream of tartar; add remaining sugar.
Fold egg whites into custard; spoon over chocolate mixture.
Chill for 2 hours.
Top with whipped cream.
Yields 6 servings.