Jo Beard's Chess Pie
This Southern pie is noted for its simplicity of ingredients--butter, sugar, and eggs. Try it and see why it is so adored.
Ingredients
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1 ready-to-use rolled-out piecrust
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1-1/4 cups sugar
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1 tablespoon fine-ground white cornmeal
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1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted and cooled
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4 eggs
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1 tablespoon white distilled vinegar
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1 teaspoon vanilla
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1/8 teaspoon salt
Directions
1.
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2.
Unfold piecrust; fit into 9-inch pie pan.
3.
Mix sugar and cornmeal in bowl. Stir in butter, eggs, vinegar, vanilla sand salt. Pour into pie shell.
4.
Bake in 350 degree F oven 45 minutes or until set. If top starts to brown, lightly cover with foil about halfway through baking. Cool pie completely on wire rack. Makes 8 servings.
Nutrition information
Calories 346, Total Fat 19 g, Saturated Fat 9 g, Cholesterol 138 mg, Sodium 169 mg, Carbohydrate 40 g, Fiber 0 g, Protein 4 g.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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