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Lemon Chess Pie Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups sugar
2 Tbsp corn meal
1 Tbsp flour
4 eggs, unbeaten
¼ cup melted butter
¼ cup milk
¼ cup lemon juice
4 tsp grated lemon rind
Unbaked pastry shell
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, corn meal and flour. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well after each.
Stir in butter, milk, lemon juice and rind; mix well.
Pour mixture into pie plated lined with unbaked pastry. Bake on lower self of oven for 45 minutes or until done.
Allow to cook before cutting.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This pie has a lovely flavor and was a favorite of my Mother's. It is from the North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery cookbook, a gift from Brenda Sherrill and Kay Lord when I first moved to Winston-Salem in 1966.

 

 

 

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