DAS DUTCHMAN ESSENHAUS’

GERMAN CHOCOLATE PIE

1 8-ounce package Baker’s semi-sweet chocolate

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1 13-ounce can sweetened condensed milk

1-1/3 cups angle flake coconut

3 eggs, slightly beaten

1/2 cup sugar

1 9-inch unbaked pastry shell (you’ll need a deep-dish)

whipped cream or ice cream (optional, but this is so rich, you’ll need it)

In a saucepan, melt chocolate and butter over medium heat. Add sweetened condensed milk, coconut, eggs and sugar. Stir until blended. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake in a preheated 400 deg oven for 30 min. (it took 40 in ours and the center was gooey--wouldn’t have required much more) Cool or serve warm with a dollop of whipped cream or ice-cream. Store in refrigerator. makes 8 servings

8 Nov 95 Courier Journal

Pie was served at Das Dutchman Essenhaus in Middlebury, Ind., and the recipe is from “Amish Country Cookbook, Volume 1,” one of the restaurant’s three cookbooks. cost is $11.50 each, plus $4 postage. Send request to Das Dutchman Essenhaus, The Dutch Corp., 240 U.S. 20, P.O. Box 2608, Middlebury, Ind., 46540 (or buy at restaurant)

I went home and make it that night, in a jiffy............... ymmy