If you've got baking staples in your kitchen, then you probably have everything you need for a classic chess pie. This old-fashioned pie typically has two distinctive ingredients, cornmeal and vinegar, plus other on-hand ingredients such as sugar, flour, eggs, milk and vanilla. This version is made easy with the use of refrigerated pie crusts.

Classic Chess Pie

½ (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts

sugar

cornmeal

all-purpose flour

salt

butter or margarine, melted

milk

white vinegar

vanilla extract

eggs,

Powdered sugar,

Fit piecrust into a 9-inch pieplate according to package directions; fold edges under, and crimp.


Line pastry with aluminum foil, and fill with pie weights or dried beans.


Bake at 425&deg; for 4 to 5 minutes. Remove weights and foil; bake 2 more minutes or until golden. Cool.


Stir together sugar and next 7 ingredients until blended. Add eggs, stirring well. Pour into piecrust.


Bake at 350&deg; for 50 to 55 minutes, shielding edges with aluminum foil after 10 minutes to prevent excessive browning. Cool completely on a wire rack. If desired, garnish with powdered sugar. 


Coconut Chess Pie: Prepare filling as directed above; stir in 1 cup toasted flaked coconut before pouring into piecrust. Bake as directed above.


 Thanks for this review, I am not a good pie maker so I excited to make this.

LOVED THIS PIE. MY FAMILY WILL SEE MORE OF THIS PIE ON OUR DINNER TABLE.

This pie was delicious and so easy.   I had tried to make a chess pie from another recipe, and the pie was a failure.   This was so easy and my husband loved it!   I will never buy another chess pie.


Peggy - Nashville, Tenn.

This pie was delicious and so easy!  The only tricky part is blind-baking the crust, which requires a little experience (just make sure the aluminum foil is completely pressed against the crust to prevent it shrinking).  My 7-year-old made the filling (with my supervision), and really she didn't need much help at all.  We made the coconut version, which was really good.  If I make the coconut one again, I will use unsweetened coconut, since the pie is already very sweet and sweetened flaked coconut made it just shy of cloying.  But our friends loved it, my daughter was very proud, and it tasted just as a southern chess pie should (said this Georgia native!)

Growing up, Chess Pie was a true comfort food for me.  Whatever the reason, I had never made one of my own until now... WOW, this pie is wonderful and came out perfect!!  After 50 minutes of baking at 350 degrees F, I turned the oven off and let the pie sit in the oven for an additional 20 minutes.

I bought the Southern Living cookbook at Costco last night and found this recipe.  I tried it and it was wonderful.  Now everyone wants the recipe, so I'm online to share it with others.

My family loved this pie.  I made it with toasted coconut and it was perfect.  I have already made it twice and have requests for more.  Great taste and easy to make!!

I have made this pie several times in the past.  I had lost the recipe until today. Thank you! This recipe reminds me of Grandmother Buttrey's chess pie. (she is no longer with us and she took her recipe with her)  This was always served at family gatherings, especially holidays. I always get rave reviews.  Great old country recipe.  Thank you again.

My poor mom and I had to listen to my dad rave about the women in his family and their cooking the entire time I was coming up. (My mom is a lot of things, but a cook she ain't!) I fixed this pie for Father's Day and he LOVED it! I won't kid you - I don't know what a good chess pie is supposed to taste like - but everybody who had a piece said it was excellent. So if you want to make your first chess pie, I'd start right here.

classic chess pie

Servings: 5

Cost: $9.39 /serving

Author : MyRecipes

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