Recipe: 00158 Title : Pear and Chocolate Pie Author: Anne Antoine Date : June 1995 _________________________________________________________________________ Ingredients: Crust 250g flour 125g salted butter (normal butter plus 1 teaspoon salt if you don't happen to have it - it may sound surprising, but try it and you will never again wan't another butter) 3 tablesoopn sugar 1/4 cup of warm water A large can of pears First Chocolate Layer 1 bar chocolate (at least 200g) 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa 2 tablesponn cornstarch 2 eggs 2/3 juice of a large can of pears Second Chocolate Layer 1/2 bar of chocolate (100g) 2 tablespoon cocoa 1/3 juice of the can 1 very large drop of whisky Preparation: Mix manually the ingredients of the crust. Bake it until half cooked in oven (medium heating). Prepare the first layer. Melt the chocolate in the juice. Add the other ingredients except the whites. Add the other ingredients. Let it boil gently. Beat the whites. Mix everything. Pour it in the crust Slice the pears. Dispose them in the crust. Return the lot in the oven. Prepare the second layer. Melt the chocolate in the juice. Add the other ingredients. Let it boil gently. Pour it over the pie. Let the pie cool, put it in the fridge. Serve it very cool. It is absolutly delicous and is very very easy to make, even if it may sound difficult. I prefer it with extra chocolate and extra whisky. In fact the proportions don't matter much. Just put as much of an ingredient\ as you want. The result is always good. Sorry i forgot about the yolks. Beat them and add them to the mixture after the boiling. (at the same time as you add the whites). -=-=-=-=-=-=- _________________________________________________________________________