Best Old Timey Kentucky Chess Pie Recipes

OLD FASHIONED CHESS PIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, add in the butter, sugar and vanilla together.
• Mix the ingredients until well combined.
• Add in the eggs, cornmeal, milk, and vinegar.
• Mix the ingredients until well combined.
• Place the pie crust in the 9 inch pie pan.
• Pour in the pie filling.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
• Let cool for about 45 minutes.
• Serve & enjoy.

OLD-FASHIONED CHESS PIE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks and egg. Add cornmeal and flour until well blended. Beat in milk and vanilla (do not over beat). Pour into the pastry shell. , Bake at 325° for 55-65 minutes or until the filling is almost set. Cool on a wire rack. , For topping, heat 1/2 cup sugar in a small heavy saucepan over low heat without stirring until partially melted, about 5 minutes. Cook and stir with a metal spoon until syrup is completely melted and golden, about 5 minutes. Stir in the milk, butter and remaining sugar (mixture will be lumpy). Cook over medium heat, stirring until a candy thermometer reads 234° (soft-ball stage). Remove from the heat. , Pour into a small bowl without stirring. Cool, without stirring, to 190°. Beat on high speed until mixture turns light brown and creamy and a candy thermometer reads 130°-137°, about 5 minutes. Immediately spread over pie. Store in the refrigerator.

KENTUCKY CHESS PIE

Steps:

• 1. Pre-heat oven 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients. Then add eggs, butter, milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Pour in shell and cover edges in foil. Bake with edges covered for 25 minutes. Remove foil from edges and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

COLONEL SANDERS' KENTUCKY CHESS PIE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar well.
• Add other ingredients.
• Pour into unbaked crust.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.
• Make meringue of egg whites stiffly beaten, with equal amount of sugar and small amount of nutmeg (equal amounts mean equal measure of sugar and egg whites).
• To keep meringue from weeping, beat whites until foamy, then add sugar slowly.
• Beat stiff.
• Cover filling with meringue.
• Brown in moderate oven.
• Yields one 9" pie.

SOUTHERN CHESS PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Prepare pie shells by pricking holes into bottoms of pie shells.
• Rub mixture of 1 teaspoons flour and 1 teaspoons sugar into holes in the bottom of pie shells to prevent crust from becoming soggy.
• Bake pie shells for 10 minutes.
• Remove pie shells from oven and increase oven temperature to 350°F.
• For pie filling:.
• Mix 1 tbsp flour and 1 tbsp cornmeal well.
• Add softened butter, egg yolks, and sugar.
• Add milk and sugar, mixing well.
• Pour into pie shells.
• Bake 45 minutes at 350°F degrees or until pies are set.

SOUTHERN CHESS PIE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients.
• Bake in 450 degree oven until crust begins to brown (about 10 minutes).
• Reduce heat to 350; bake about 40 minutes until the pie does not shake in the middle. It will look very dark, and will fall some after you take it out of the oven.