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       Title: FRENCH SILK CHOCOLATE PIE
  Categories: Desserts, Pies, Chocolate
       Yield: 1 pie
  
       1    Pie shell, baked and cooled
     1/2 c  Butter
     3/4 c  Sugar
       1 oz Chocolate square *
       1 ts Vanilla
       2    Eggs
            Whipped cream and walnuts
            - for topping, optional
  
   * NOTE: the book did not specify what type of chocolate to use.
   
   Make your favorite single 8 inch pie shell.
   
   Cream butter, add sugar slowly, creaming well. Blend in melted and cooled
   chocolate and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 5 minutes after
   each addition.  With electric mixer use medium speed. Turn into cooled,
   baked pie shell.  CHill 1 to 2 hours.  Before serving top with whipped
   cream and walnuts, if desired.
   
   From: 100 Prize Winning Recipes, from Pillsbury’s 3rd Grand National
   contest.  First edition, 1952.
   
   Comment in book: submitted by Mrs. K. E. Cooper, Silver Spring, Maryland.
   Mrs. Cooper won $1,000 for this recipe.
   
   Typed by Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md.  1994.
  
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