

Ages ago I posed the question: what even is a chess pie? My astute & quick-witted buddy Karen came to the rescue & immediately sent me over a recipe for this southern delicacy. This week I finally got around to making one, & while I'm disappointed that the pie has in no way given me any chess-playing advantages, it's pretty yummy. This chess pie has all of the goodness of a custard, paired with the richness you'd expect from a Paula Dean recipe. It reminds me of a pecan pie, sans pecans, & it is so good.
I topped off this pie with some slightly sweetened whipped cream, shredded coconut, & duh, coffee.

| Buttermilk Chess Pie |
Ingredients //
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 5 eggs
- 2/3 cups buttermilk
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 9" pie crust, unbaked
Directions //
- Preheat oven to 350ยบ F.
- In a bowl, combine the sugar & flour.
- Beat in eggs & buttermilk until completely blended.
- Stir in melted butter & vanilla extract.
- Pour mixture into unbaked pie crust.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes or until set. Pie is done when a knife can be inserted & removed cleanly, or when it jiggles slightly in the middle.

Yumm-o, you guys. Also, if you're reading this Karen, I baked as I was serenaded by the original dreamboat James Taylor. Swoon!
xoxo,
-m.e.
P.S. Let's travel further south & make a batch of boiled peanuts.
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS!!!
ReplyDeleteParticularly that the recipe I gave you was a photocopy of a recipe my mother got in the 70s AND that you were listening to James Taylor and yay it turned out well too!!
Once I get settled in my new space in Seattle, I am going to make this one again too!
xoxox to you and Heather!
Hooray!
DeleteIt seriously was divine. Lots of love & luck to you with your new Seattle-based adventure! I'm so excited for you!
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