Recipe - Courvoisier French Silk Chocolate Pie

1 ea 9inch pastry crust, baked
2 One half cup half and half or light cream
4 tablespoon cornstarch
1/3 cup sugar 6 ea squares (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate
4 ea egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
One fourth cup Courvoisier
1 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoon Courvoisier

Chocolate shavings

In a medium saucepan, combine half and half, cornstarch, and sugar. Stir
until wellblended. Add chocolate and cook over low heat, stirring
continuously, until chocolate is melted and mixture comes to a boil.

Stir one cup of hot mixture into yolks, return to pan. Cook and stir one
minute. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and Courvoisier.

Pour into prepared crust. Chill four hours.

Whip cream with two tablespoons Courvoisier until fluffy. Spread over top
of pie. Garnish with chocolate shavings.
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #303

Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:12:54 0000

From: "femorgan" femorgan@iol.ie