Categories: Pies, Usenet 
      Yield: 1 pie 
  
      1 c  Butter 
      2 c  Sugar, confectioner's 
           -(sifted) 
      4 oz Chocolate, unsweetened 
      4    Eggs 
    3/4 t  Peppermint extract 
      2 t  Vanilla extract 
     10    Vanilla wafers, 
           -crushed 
  
  Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. 
   
  In the top of a double boiler, melt the chocolate.  Add to the butter-sugar 
  mixture and beat thoroughly.  Add the eggs one at a time, beating well 
  after each egg, until well blended. Fold in the peppermint and vanilla. 
   
  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.  Refrigerate 
  for two hours. 
   
  NOTES: 
   
  *  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." 
   
  *  This recipe fills a shallow 8 inch pie tin; add 50 percent to everything 
  to fill a 9-inch pie tin. 
   
  *  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. 
   
  *  This is serious decadence! The first time I made this, I stopped several 
  times in disbelief of just what I was doing.  Enjoy! 
   
  : Difficulty:  moderate (melting chocolate is tricky). 
  : Time:  30 minutes preparation, several hours chilling. 
  : Precision:  measure the ingredients. 
   
  : Chris Kent 
  : Western Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, Calif., 
  USA 
  : kent@decwrl.dec.com    -or- decwrl!kent 
   
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