Today, I'm baking a couple of chess pies. The recipe comes from a cookbook that our elementary school put out a few years ago.
Mr. Larry's Chess Pie is the name of this delicious concoction. Mr. Larry worked in the library when my children went to school there. This recipe calls for buttermilk, so it's sort of a combination chess/buttermilk pie. It has won a blue ribbon each time Claire has entered it in the fair!
Mr. Larry's Chess Pie
3 eggs
1 1/2 c. sugar
3 T melted butter
1 T white corn meal
1/2 c. buttermilk
1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
1 (9 inch) pie shell
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat eggs with wire whisk. Add sugar, butter, cornmeal, buttermilk and vanilla extract. Mix well. Pour into an unbaked 9-inch pie shell. Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 20 minutes; reduce heat to 350 and continue baking for 25 more minutes.