Chocolate Cream Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. milk
2 sq. unsweetened chocolate
1/4 c. Karo syrup
4 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
2 egg yolks
1 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla flavor
1 (9-inch) baked pie shell

Preparation

Scald 1 3/4 cups milk with chocolate in top of double boiler over boiling water.
Measure cornstarch in small mixing bowl and blend with remaining 1/4 cup milk.
Mix in sugar and salt.
Add egg yolks and beat.
Add quickly all at once to scalded chocolate milk and stir constantly until thickened.
Cover and cook 5 to 7 minutes longer.
Remove from heat; add butter and vanilla.
Cool. Pour in baked shell.
Top with whip cream or make your own meringue.