1    Pie shell, baked and cooled

    1/2 c  Butter

    3/4 c  Sugar

      1 oz Chocolate square *

      1 ts Vanilla

      2    Eggs

           Whipped cream and walnuts
           - for topping, optional
  * NOTE: the book did not specify what type of chocolate to use.
  Make your favorite single 8 inch pie shell.
  Cream butter, add sugar slowly, creaming well. Blend in melted and cooled
  chocolate and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 5 minutes after
  each addition.  With electric mixer use medium speed. Turn into cooled,
  baked pie shell.  CHill 1 to 2 hours.  Before serving top with whipped
  cream and walnuts, if desired.
  From: 100 Prize Winning Recipes, from Pillsbury's 3rd Grand National
  contest.  First edition, 1952.
  Comment in book: submitted by Mrs. K. E. Cooper, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  Mrs. Cooper won $1,000 for this recipe.
  Typed by Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md.  1994.