Chess Pie

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Chess Pie

Postby Moutaineer » Sat Dec 01, 2018 4:32 am

I'd never heard of chess pie before Rockabilly mentioned it in the Thanksgiving food post. So I went and looked it up.

I made my first one tonight--pineapple and coconut. It is pretty good. Basically a pie crust with fudge in it :)

I cut the amount of sugar in the recipe in half though as I'd like to sleep sometime in the next few days.

Thank you for adding a new thing to my repertoire!

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby AmityBee » Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:18 am

I googled it. Not what I was expecting :D

I expected a Battenberg design or something similar... because, you know, chess... :lol:

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby StraightForward » Sat Dec 01, 2018 2:31 pm

I've heard of them, but never actually had one. Very southern, as far as I know, and haven't made it out west yet.
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Re: Chess Pie

Postby khall » Sat Dec 01, 2018 4:52 pm

Mountaineer it was not Rockabilly but me that mentioned chess pie. It is very much a southern desert that I have eaten since my childhood. I used the recipe that my mother handed down to me which includes vinegar and lots of sugar with a few eggs. I have never seen one in the south that included anything else. Very very sweet.

This is pretty much the recipe that I've used over the years:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9090/chess-pie/ minus the evaporated milk and cornmeal.

I also have the recipe for iron skillet chocolate pie and pecan pie from my mom. Kind of funny considering she was never much for cooking.

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby Tarlo Farm » Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:11 am

Moutaineer wrote:

I cut the amount of sugar in the recipe in half though as I'd like to sleep sometime in the next few days.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby Rockabilly » Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:01 pm

Moutaineer wrote:I'd never heard of chess pie before Rockabilly mentioned it in the Thanksgiving food post. So I went and looked it up.

I made my first one tonight--pineapple and coconut. It is pretty good. Basically a pie crust with fudge in it :)

I cut the amount of sugar in the recipe in half though as I'd like to sleep sometime in the next few days.

Thank you for adding a new thing to my repertoire!


Well, it coulda been me :lol:, but it wasn't. Chess Pie is a very southern thing and I've never liked it. I could never understand why it didn't have a particular flavor except excessively sweet.

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby khall » Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:18 pm

Rockabilly LOL! That's because it IS a southern thing! Sweet is what it is all about. Remember we are the land of sweet tea:)

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Re: Chess Pie

Postby Moutaineer » Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:45 pm

:)


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