Cooking Our Way

4 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 ½ c. butter
8 egg yolks
2 c. powdered sugar
¼ c. water
2 t. vanilla
1 c. sugar
1 c. chopped pecans
16 oz. vanilla wafers

Melt chocolate.  Add beaten yolks which have been stirred together with water and sugar.  Cook and stir until very thick.  Remove from heat and beat until smooth.  Cool.  Whip butter and powdered sugar and add to chocolate mixture.  Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into chocolate. Add vanilla.  Put together in three layers with vanilla wafers beginning with wafers and ending with chocolate.  Chill well.  This is better the second day