Preheat the oven to 325°F. In a mixing bowl, combine the first 5 ingredients (through extract) thoroughly. Slowly drizzle in ...

It’s easy to confuse a chess pie and a buttermilk pie. Both are classic Southern desserts. Both are simple and homey looking with a single pastry crust and a creamy, pale yellow filling. But take a ...

Chess pie is a classic Southern custard pie — known for a few distinct ingredients, all of which contribute to the beloved filling’s final texture. Chess pie recipes commonly use cornmeal as a ...

Sometimes a pie comes about in response to a request. I’ve never had any experience with Chess Pies, but after making the Hoosier Pie (milk, sugar, flour) I became intrigued with these old fashioned ...

Some Southern sweets -- pecan pie, pralines, red velvet cake -- are well-loved throughout the country. As someone who was born and raised in southern Indiana, I have fond memories of a dessert that ...

I first tasted a slice of chess pie while sitting on the side of the road in middle Tennessee. Well, almost the side of the road. A fellow Californian friend and I made the trek to Leiper's Fork to ...

The first time I remember hearing of a chess pie was as a little girl at my grandmother's house. There was this pie on their dining room table and my grandparents and their friends had practically ...

In 19th-century Alabama, as one of many tales goes, a freed slave made a living selling pies to her neighbors. During a time when pecans and other nuts were hard to come by, she made a sugar pie, ...