Lemon Chess Pie
 
 
A traditional southern style pie
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Recipe type: Pie
Cuisine: American
Ingredients
  • Crust: your favorite recipe for single crust pie
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 tablespoons flour
  • 1 tablespoon cornmeal
  • 4 eggs, lightly beaten
  • ¼ cup melted butter
  • ¼ cup milk
  • grated lemon zest from 1 lemon
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Whisk together sugar, flour, and cornmeal in a large bowl.
  3. Add eggs, melted butter, milk, lemon rind, lemon juice, and salt and whisk well.
  4. Pour into uncooked pie shell.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes.
  6. Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees and bake for another 40 to 45 minutes.
  7. Pie will still be fairly jiggly but will firm up as it cools.
  8. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Recipe by People, Places and Pies at https://peopleplacespies.com/southern-cooking-in-durham-north-carolina-lemon-chess-pie-bullocks-bbq/