I came across this on the Internet today 🙂
Old Southern Lemon Chess Pie
9-inch pie crust (unbaked)
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 eggsGrated rind of
4 lemons (zest only)
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Combine all above ingredients and mix well. Pour into raw pie crust and bake 40 to 45 minutes until pie is golden brown and set. Pie may ripple when you touch the edge, but it should not slouch. Allow pie to cool to room temperature before cutting. Pie can be garnished with fresh mint sprigs or lemon peels coated with sugar and shaped.
I would probably prefer cherry or apple pie but the Lemon Chess Pie looks good too.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Looks yummy!
For us europeans, that will translate to
“Heat oven to 163 degrees”
for the Celcius temperature.
At least, I think so, because
my oven doesn’t reach over 300…
1 1/2 cups of sugar? Sounds awful sweet. Almost as sweet as winning the World Open twice, which I have done. Can you guess who I am?
Ben Finegold?
It is a sweet, delicious, perhaps old-fashioned sort of pie. It occasionally shows up in a restaurant down here. I thought we Southerners had a “sweet-tooth” problem, then I moved to New England. My, oh my.
New England is Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie. oh my oh my. My craving are running wild.
Susan you really need to get rid of these anonymous postings. it is silly.
now anonymous wants us to guess who he is. haha. the ego is running wild playing mind games with people. sorry I dont care who you are. go play games somewhere else. If you dont know who you are then dont expect me to guess. if you do know who you are then stop hiding behind a mask.
by the way my name is David. I was posting as David and someone else was posting as David so I changed my posting name. I have no idea who the guy is who posts as David. but I do not post as David. I just dont want to speak for him and I dont want him speaking for me. fair enough.
The origin of the term “Chess Pie” is actually a misnomer. It was suppose to be “Chest Pie” – for food that can keep longer in a ice chest or pantry. Typically these receipes have a weak acid like lemon juice or even vinegar in some receipes. This was an empiric discover and so these receipes can be quite old. See also “Chess Pie” at Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, MI