Click for Cookbook LOGIN
"Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy."--Unknown

Aunt Myrtle's Chess Pie Recipe

  Tried it? Rate this Recipe:
 

 

This recipe for Aunt Myrtle's Chess Pie is from The Flavors of Our Lives, one of the cookbooks created at FamilyCookbookProject.com. We'll help you start your own personal cookbook! It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook!
Category:
Category:
Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 unbaked Pie Shell, 9" deep (may be cooked 5 minutes or less to keep pie from being soggy)

1 stick of Margarine or Butter
2 c Sugar
4 Eggs
1 t Vanilla
1 t Vinegar
1 t Cornmeal
Directions:
Directions:
Melt butter, add sugar, beat eggs and add to sugar mixture then add vanilla, vinegar and cornmeal. Beat well by hand and pour into pie shell (crust).

Bake in 350º oven for 30 minutes. Shake gentle, if it doesn't shake in the middle it's done. Be careful not to overcook!
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe was copied from handwritten copy of Hannah Lou Hall Mays written on 11/21/1999 (married 11/22/1951). "This recipe has been in the Graham family a long time. Mother got this recipe from her mother, Hannah Parlisa Bond Graham who passed away on 8/28/1941. At that time it was said it had been in the family for 80 years. Myra Graham married in 1917 and her Mother married in 1887."

 

 

 

Learn more about the process to create a cookbook -- or
Start your own personal family cookbook right now!  Here's to good eating!

Search for more great recipes here from over 1,500,000 in our family cookbooks!

 

 

 

43W  

Cookbooks are great for Holiday Gifts, Wedding Gifts, Bridal Shower ideas and Family Reunions!

*Recipes and photos entered into the Family Cookbook Project are provided by the submitting contributors. All rights are retained by the contributor. Please contact us if you believe copyright violations have occurred.

Search for more great recipes here from over 1,500,000 in our family cookbooks!