Comments on: Lemon Chess Pie

By: JENNIFER

JENNIFER — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:48:25 +0000

Thank you so much for the great recipes. I found the link to your page from the SouthernSavers website, and I am loving finding recipes I had as a kid. Growing up in South Georgia these were all favorites, and since my Grandmother passed away while I was away at college, I was not able to get any of her recipes…Thanks again so much!

By: Clair

Clair — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:08:05 +0000

I baked this Lemon Chess for my boyfriend yesterday. He’d been begging for one for weeks. It was a total success. Thanks!

By: Amanda in Texas

Amanda in Texas — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:58:25 +0000

Christy, my Papa (grandfather) is coming over for dinner tonight and I’m whipping this pie up right now to treat him for dessert! Thanks for the great recipe!

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By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:26:28 +0000

Wow, looks delicious! I like lemon meringue pie but it’s too much work and I would be the only one eating it (the rest of the family doesn’t share my love of citrus). Your recipe looks just right. Not a lot of ingredients and quick. I am going to have to make one real soon, even if I am the only one who eats it (I will just have to call my girlfriends over to share ). BTW, if you get yourself a microplane zester, you can collect zest in no time, no more having to chop up the zest and they are inexpensive. Mine has a plastic sleeve on it so it fits in my utensil drawer without scrapping anything.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:17:20 +0000

My mother’s birthday is the 21st and she just absolutely adores Lemon Chess and always complains that you can’t ever find it anywhere, anymore. Well guess what…Mom, Happy Birthday!

I’ll be sure to make an after baking posting as well.

Thanks for the great directions and the bang-on pictures.

Mark

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:52:25 +0000

I grew up in a bi-cultural house Southern and Italian. The Southern part brought us a love of pie and the Italian a love of lemons. We had chess pies but never lemon chess pies. When I attended University in Lexington, Kentucky someone asked me to make a chess pie and I had lemons on hand so I decided to make a lemon chess pie not knowing the Southern cooks had already been making them. I served it to the folks that asked for the chess pie and they were blown away to get a lemon chess pie instead. They all knew of them but thought this Italian guy wouldn’t know how to make one.
I actually didn’t know how to make one but I improvised. I didn’t make it with whipped egg whites but it came out very nice anyway.

Since then I have made them often and will be making two of them today to serve with one of our Italian dishes. I love the food of the Southern cooks and often incorporate these dishes in meals with Italian food. Thanks for this entry. Via la the South.

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By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:30:49 +0000

Hi Christy,

I want to make this pie to take to my parents on Easter. Do you have to use the zesting? I don’t have a zester and probably don’t have time to go get one before Sunday so how else could I do that?

Thanks!

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:55:05 +0000

I just made this pie, and am waiting for it to cool down to take a bit. I used a pottery pie pan, and found the crust actually took about 16-17 minutes to brown nicely. But the baking went a few minutes too long for 25 minutes, as the top got a little dark. I will probably back it down to 22 minutes next time. I cheated and used my food processor to whip the egg whites, and they came out perfect.

Woolworth’s in downtown West Palm Beach used to serve this at the luncheon counter in the 60s when I was a kid. Can’t wait to try it.

Also, Christy, I ordered your cookbook. As I get older, I find I’m enjoying home cooking again, especially southern cooking.