* If youre not very good at pie crusts (Im not), feel free to use a pre-formed graham cracker crust. I got the recipe from Malcolm Slaney, who "found it in a cookbook when 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. NOTES: * Decadent chocolate mint pie - One of the things that is memorable about Marshall Fields department store in Chicago is their "Frango chocolate mints." This pie captures the flavor perfectly. Line the pie tin with the vanilla wafer crumbs (buttering the pie tin makes them stick to the side a little better). Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg, until well blended. Add to the butter-sugar mixture and beat thoroughly. In the top of a double boiler, melt the chocolate.
: Chris Kent : Western Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, Calif., USA : -or- decwrl!kent : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust NOTESīeat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. : Time: 30 minutes preparation, several hours chilling. Enjoy! : Difficulty: moderate (melting chocolate is tricky). * This is serious decadence! The first time I made this, I stopped several times in disbelief of just what I was doing. The chocolate and mint flavors predominate, no matter what crust you use.
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It is also used in the treatment of asthma, memory loss, and skin care problems.Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The health benefits of mint include improved digestion, weight loss, relief from nausea, depression, fatigue, and headache.Mint has been found in Egyptian tombs from as far back as 1000 BC!.Mexicans call mint Yerba Bueno or good herb.Ancient Hebrews used to scatter mint over the synagogue floor for its scent.Mint gets its name from Menthe a Greek mythical character.The US produces 70% of the Worlds peppermint and spearmint,.Mint’s essential oils are used in perfume, cosmetics, air fresheners, drink flavorings, candies and medications.The most common mint flavors are peppermint and spearmint, but there are more than 20 types of mints growing around the world.Peppermint is the number 1 selling flavor among non-chocolate, hard candies.Ancient Greeks believed mint could cure hiccups.They were sold in tea houses and sold frozen to emphasize the sharp mint flavor. Frango Mints, perhaps the first chocolate mints, were first patented in 1918.They were once called “Andy’s Candies” but the owner ‘found that men did not like giving boxes of candies with another man’s name on them to their wives and girlfriends’ so he changed the name. Andes chocolate mints, created in 1921, have little to do with the Andes mountains.Thin Mints account for over 25% of the annual Girl Scout cookie sales.In tea houses and dinner halls of the early 1900’s mint sprigs and dark chocolates served after desserts for patrons to ‘chew for good breath and aid digestion’.This aromatic herb, however, combined with chocolate didn’t truly become a popular concept until York peppermint patties came to be during the 1920s.The ancient Greeks and Romans valued mint for its ability to aid in digestion, freshen one’s breath, and was used in many different kinds of foods.Mint chocolate is also the name of an herb with edible leaves that tastes like chocolate and mint.Girl Scouts first sold Thin Mint cookies in 1953 and are still their most popular cookie.Their chain of stores spread across the country. One of the earliest mass-producers of chocolate mints was Huyler’s in New York.
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