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- From: kent@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Frango pie
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- Date: 18 Mar 88 06:28:57 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE FRANGO-PIE D "02 Nov 87" 1988
- .RZ "FRANGO MINT PIE" "Decadent chocolate mint pie"
- One of the things that is memorable about Marshall Field's
- department store in Chicago is their ``Frango chocolate mints.''
- This pie captures the flavor perfectly. I got the recipe from Malcolm Slaney,
- who ``found it in a cookbook when [he was] attending Kayak School in Oregon.''
- .IH "Makes one pie"
- .IG "1 cup" "butter" "250 g"
- .IG "2 cups" "confectioners sugar" "250 g"
- (sifted)
- .IG "4 oz" "unsweetened chocolate" "120 g"
- .IG "4" "eggs"
- .IG "\(34 tsp" "peppermint extract" "4 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "vanilla extract" "10 ml"
- .IG "10" "vanilla wafers,"
- crushed
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy.
- .SK 2
- In the top of a double boiler, melt the chocolate. Add to the butter-sugar
- mixture and beat thoroughly.
- .SK 3
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg, until well blended.
- .SK 4
- Fold in the peppermint and vanilla.
- .SK 5
- Line the pie tin with the vanilla wafer crumbs (buttering the pie tin makes
- them stick to the side a little better). Pour in the filling.
- .SK 6
- Refrigerate for two hours.
- .NX
- This recipe fills a shallow
- .AB "8 inch" "20-cm"
- pie tin; add 50% to everything to fill a
- .AB "9 inch" "25-cm"
- pie tin.
- .PP
- If you're not very good at pie crusts (I'm not), feel free to use a pre-formed
- graham cracker crust. The chocolate and mint flavors predominate, no matter
- what crust you use.
- .PP
- This is serious decadence! The first time I made this, I stopped several times
- in disbelief of just what I was doing. Enjoy!
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate (melting chocolate is tricky).
- .I Time:
- 30 minutes preparation, several hours chilling.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Chris Kent
- Western Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, Calif., USA
- kent@decwrl.dec.com -or- decwrl!kent
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