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Mama A's Chess Pies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 lb Butter (not oleo) the older the better
1 doz eggs
6 cups sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Directions:
mix together ingredients, pour into this pastry unbaked. Bake 325º for 45 min to 1 hour. Once cooled remove from pie pans break off excess crust and stack pies on top of one another.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
MY FAVORITE Christmas dessert, who could not love a ton of butter, sugar and eggs:) -Becky

 

 

 

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