Old Fashioned Chess Pie Recipe
Topic: Old Fashioned Chess Pie Recipe
Old Fashioned Chess Pie Recipe
For a couple of hundred years, the chess pie has been a mainstay of the Southern dessert table, gooey, buttery, and highly sweet. The ingredients are always butter, sugar, and eggs, although bakers differ on the thickening agent: Some prefer flour, while others prefer cornmeal, but we use both in our recipe. There are numerous stories about the origins of the name. Some claim it’s chess pie because it’s kept in pie “chests,” while others believe it’s the product of a wife saying, “I don’t know, it’s chess pie,” in response to her husband’s question about what she was serving. Whatever thickener you use or where the term comes from, there’s no denying that a chess pie will always be a crowd-pleaser. What’s better? Because our recipe uses prepared piecrust, it’s simple to whip one up for a last-minute gathering.
WHAT EQUIPMENT DO I NEED TO MAKE CHESS PIE?
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Stand Mixer: This KitchenAid model is one of my favourites. A hand mixer or a large mixing bowl will suffice if you don’t have a stand mixer.
Plate for pies
PRO RECIPE SUGGESTIONS
Sugar. Chess Pie is a lovely pie in the traditional sense. Start with 1 cup of sugar, and if you need more, add 1/4 cup at a time until you reach the desired sweetness level. My family and I discovered that the original recipe called for 2 cups of sugar, making the pie far too sweet for us.
The temperature in the room. Start with room temperature eggs and butter. This will soften the butter and make the filling more filling-like.
Vanilla. Pure vanilla, not imitation vanilla, should be used. It makes a significant difference. If you insist on using imitation vanilla, I propose cutting the amount to 1/2 teaspoon because imitation vanilla is more substantial than pure vanilla.
Pie Crust Shielding Edges If the pie crust’s edges begin to brown too quickly, cover them with thin foil strips to prevent overcooking.
Cooling. Serve the Chess Pie when it has been removed from the oven. Instead, cool the pie for about an hour on a wire rack before refrigerating it until ready to serve.
CHESS PIE HAS DIFFERENT VERSIONS
Add 4 tablespoons cocoa powder to the pie mixture for a chocolate chess pie.
Add 1/4 cup lemon juice to the pie filling for a Lemon Chess Pie.
1 cup flaked coconut to the pie filling for Coconut Chess Pie
Eggnog Chess Pie: Substitute 1/3 cup eggnog for the whole milk and vinegar in this recipe.
Old Fashioned Chess Pie Recipe
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WHERE DID THE NAME CHESS PIE COME FROM?
It’s unclear where the name Chess Pie came from. There are a plethora of theories to choose from. According to the Washington Post, some claim it was named after a mispronunciation of “just pie” or “ches’ pie,” while others claim it was named for gentlemen who fled to a room to play chess. Others claim it was named because it was kept in a pie chest. Another reason could be that it was made from chestnut flour.
WHAT MAKES CHESS PIE SO DELIGHTFUL?
Chess Pie is so sweet because people used to add sugar to milk and unsalted butter to preserve them from spoiling hundreds of years ago. Two cups of sugar were used initially in this pie. I reduced the sugar in the recipe by 1/2 cup because it was too sweet for us today, and we didn’t need the sugar as a preservative. It’s still somewhat sweet, but not too so. Please see my notes below for suggestions on how to add the sugar.
HOW LONG SHOULD CHESS PIE BE BAKED?
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F and bake for 60–65 minutes. Keep an eye on the sides of the pie crust to make sure they don’t burn. Cover the edges of the pie dough with pieces of aluminium foil if necessary.
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