Nana's Black Bottom Pie

Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar, separated into two 1/2 cup portions
• 2 cups milk, scalded
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 4 egg yolks, beaten
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin (or one envelope unflavored gelatin)
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons rum extract
• 4 egg whites
• 1 baked 9-inch pie shell

Recipe

• 1 combine 1/2 cup of the sugar and cornstarch, set aside.
• 2 in a saucepan, add the milk to the egg yolks, then add the sugar/cornstarch mixture. stir until combined.
• 3 cook and stir over medium heat, until the custard coats a spoon.
• 4 remove from heat, and stir in the vanilla.
• 5 in a separate bowl, add the chocolate to 1 cup of the hot custard and stir until melted and combined. pour the chocolate custard into the pie shell and chill.
• 6 while the chocolate custard is chilling, soften the gelatin in the cold water, then add it to the remaining hot custard. stir until the gelatin is dissolved.
• 7 stir in the rum extract.
• 8 chill the rum custard until slightly thickened.
• 9 beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.
• 10 gradually add the remaining 1/2 cup of sugar, beat until stiff peaks form.
• 11 fold the rum custard into the egg whites. chill slightly, if necessary, until the mixture mounds.
• 12 pile the rum custard mixture over the chocolate layer. chill until set.