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If you’re anything like me, the title alone drew you to this post. Anything with buttermilk gets five stars in my book. So let me just tell you right now that if you like buttermilk, pies, and peaches, this one won’t disappoint. This is an old fashioned buttermilk custard pie with juicy bites of peaches throughout and a hint of cinnamon in every bite.
It’s as good hot as it is cold – and as good for dessert as it is for breakfast. Oooh did I say that? Pie for breakfast? Oh I meant….mid morning snack with your coffee, as long as you got up at 4:00 AM and skipped breakfast just to have this “snack” at 7:00 Am. ~winks and grins~ It has buttermilk (calcium!), eggs (protein!) and peaches (fruit!), toss in the starches in the crust and all ya gotta do it throw a green bean on the side and you’ve practically eaten the food pyramid!
I’ll get to showing you how to make this easy and delicious pie again here in a minute but first I got some rambling to do because that’s just how I work 🙂
I had to run some errands yesterday afternoon and came home to find my husband washing his car and my daughter riding her bicycle in the driveway. She beamed from ear to ear as I got out of the car and she told me it was the first spring day of riding her bike. I put my groceries down and perched on a porch step as I watched her for a bit. It seems like yesterday, but it has been over thirty years since I was exactly where Katy Rose was.
Did you have a bicycle as a kid? I had a pink one with a banana style seat and the words “Powder puff” written on it. It was beautiful, my pride and joy. I put a piece of masking tape running down the center of the seat as soon as I got it. I’d get on it and line up the zipper of my brother’s hand me down jeans with that strip of tape to help me find my balance as I was teaching myself to ride.
Once I learned, man I was off! I imagine some folks who didn’t know any better might have thought I was just riding a bicycle as I wore trails into the roads in my neighborhood, but if you were ever in the seat of your own bicycle as a child you know the truth – I was flying!
Every morning I’d get up with the sun, get dressed as quickly as I could, and then head out for a day of peddling as fast as I could while the wind flew through my hair and I soared through the skies of Huntsville.
Oh how I remember the joy of that first day when it was warm enough to ride your bike after the winter! I’d ride all day long only to wake up the next day with legs so sore I could hardly walk, but by golly I’d still get on that bike and within a day or two be back to flying again.
You know, so much of life is like that.
It starts out fun, then we realize it’s hard, but we stick with it and pedal some more and eventually we’ll be rewarded with some good flight time.
If we just stick with it.
And keep pedaling.
If it feels hard today, if you’re a little sore from trying, don’t give up.
Keep pedaling.
You’ll fly soon.
Now lets park our bikes and make a pie.
You’ll need: Buttermilk, sugar, peaches, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, butter, and a few tablespoons of flour. The flour was camera shy. Some ingredients are just like that so I try to be flexible 🙂
Oh, and also a pie crust.
A Deep Dish one.
Drain your peaches and pour them into your unbaked pie crust.
Sometimes I end up with a little bit extra batter and it won’t quite fit into my crust, so I always eat one or two peach slices just to be on the safe side. ~winks~
Oh the things I go through for my family.
Melt your butter in a medium mixing bowl.
Stir in your buttermilk first.
This cools the butter down a bit so when we add our eggs they won’t cook, instead we’ll be able to whisk them up like we want to.
Add in all other ingredients.
Stir them up until well blended.
If you look directly to the right beside this photo, you will see a rectangle with a play button in it that plays the Southern Fried Radio Show 🙂 You can press play and then just go back to reading this post while you listen if you like.
Pour over your peaches.
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes, or until the center is set (doesn’t jiggle when you gently shake it).
Serve hot or cold.
Ya might wanna make two like I usually do…
and let us know where you live…
and have plates and forks handy…
coz we’re gonna wanna dig in.
Be there soon, I’ll leave my bicycle in your front yard 🙂
- 1 Can (29 oz) Yellow Cling Peaches in Heavy Syrup, drained
- 2 heaping tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- ⅓ Cup Buttermilk
- ½ Cup Butter or Margarine, Melted
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 1 deep dish pie shell, unbaked
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- Place peaches in bottom of pie shell.
- In mixing bowl combine all other ingredients and mix with whisk until well combined.
- Pour over peaches.
- Place pie on baking sheet and bake at 350 for forty minutes, or until the middle doesn't jiggle when moved.
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I’m glad I didn’t have a mouthful of Vanilla Chai while I was reading…
I had no idea that flour was camera shy, but it’s so generous of you to be so understanding. :o)
P.S. That stuff is why I can relate so well to you, I’m a goof too, Makes life so much fun for us and for everyone we come in contact with too
~sigh!~ I guess I’ll be heading to the store later for peaches. This is begging to bee breakfast for us tomorrow to reward our spring break hard work that we are fixin’ to do today. Making room in our office for a college student to stay all summer so they can complete an internship.
Hey Laurie! Isn’t it fun allowing yourself to be goofy at will? Folks are missing out! ~giggle~ Yes, fruit for breakfast is very important you know – and this has vitamin c too, so it’ll help combat Scurvy!!!!
Don’t wanna mess with scurvy 🙂
Gratefully,
Christy
I needed your flour to not be camera shy today so that I would know what kind to use – self rising or all purpose? I always get so nervous trying to figure that out, and I’m not entirely sure what the difference is…is it something about yeast??? Thanks for your help, and another great post!
I’m so glad you posted this! I just put it in the recipe, all purpose. Thank you for reminding me!
Hi Tami! Just so y’know…self-rising flour has baking powder and salt added to it for convenience. You can make your own by adding 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp. salt to every 1 cup of all purpose flour! Christy has this tip in the back of her frist cookbook, in case you forget this little bit of info. 😉 Can’t wait for her second book to be published!
Oh Christy…this looks like a cobbler in a pie tin….and I could eat the whole
thing!!! Yummy, Yummy!!! Love these pics and recipes!!!
Blessings~
I think I have all the ingredients for this on hand! Gonna go sniff my buttermilk right now and get to baking!
This sounds wonderful. Must make soon. I loved that “flying” on my bicycle. We (my cousin and I) flew all over our neighborhood in Memphis. Those were happy days. Thank you Christy for the smile you give me every morning and throughout the day too. 🙂
How many cups sliced fresh peaches do you think that would be?
I’d probably use four peaches, peeled and sliced 🙂
That was going to be my question, too! Thanks for answering before I could ask!! I have fresh peaches on hand. And I have printed your “Lela’s fried peach pies” recipe as well. I can’t WAIT!!!
Hi Christy. I just read a news clip to the effect that folks on a diet lost more weight when they had dessert for breakfast. =-)
FINALLY some news worth paying attention to! lol
CHRISTY…Help! As soon as I parked my bike, I clicked the button for the radio show & loved it! I am looking for the taste test and smell button…I know it’s gotta be here somewhere? ???
I just love you Kristin!!!! the Facebook page is Facebook.com/southernfriedradio and you can go online to listen to them all at http://www.southernfriedradioshow.com
They’re also on iTunes!
I’m gonna see what happened to that taste and smell button, I thought I had it here, too!!
You and I would have been inseparable bff’s if we lived in the same neighborhood growing up… Love you too! Have a fabulous day…
Ooooh that pie looks so fancy!!!!
My friend and I lived next door and we went to the same school. We used to ride to school, ride home and keep on riding after we got home! We just rode and rode. Back then we had a lot of vacant land around our houses so in our minds we were ‘mountain biking’. Lol
Christy, this is one of my most favorite pies and I’m like you when it comes to buttermilk, it makes everything good ! I loved the days of flying on my bike and thought I was something when I learned to ride with no hands ! Happy day all !
Looks great– can’t wait to make it. I just found your site–love it! I live in North Florida which is practically Alabama. We are southern here– I don’t care what anyone says– with a beach. So- I can relate to all things butter, buttermilk and bless your heart.
That pie looks marvelous. I had a nice red bike when I was young-I received it for Christmas one year and named her Christmas Carol. To my great sorrow it was stolen from the front yard the following spring and was never recovered. My parents were angry because I had not been responsible enough to put it away. It was a sad lesson learned.
Christy, I made your “plain” buttermilk pie yesterday afternoon and added 1/2 cup of chocolate chips to it. Swoon. I really want a piece right now, except it’s almost lunchtime. Dessert first maybe? Anyways, I might just have to try this one with the leftover buttermilk since, for the life of me, I can’t remember what recipe I bought it for in the first place.
Love the recipe!! Quick question ….. Today is my husband’s birthday, do you think blackberries would work in this recipe? His favorite and they are always wonderful at Sam’s Club.
I think you are a brilliant woman and now I wanna make it with blackberries! Please report back, it should be fabulous!
Gotta try this one…….by the way, your cookbook has helped simplify my life! I buy several at one time…..saving shipping charges……and give them (along with pretty dish towels) as bridal shower gifts. No fretting over what to give. EVERY southern bride needs one of your cookbooks. They are always a hit. Thanks for the service you are providing in teaching all these girls how to cook southern! Just placed an order for two more for ‘bridal shower season’!
I can’t wait to try this pie. Looks so good. By the way, I got a new bicycle for Christmas but haven’t had a chance to ride it yet. The weather has not been good, but I am planning on riding soon. My Grandchildren can’t wait for Gran to ride with them!
I must pin this so very excited for a reason to bake a pie!! Oh wait my momma’s coming to town this weekend and buttermilk is her favorite pie!!! I have a reason… because every good southern girl tries to bake her momma her favorite pie, right?!? ;-D Thanks for your awesomeness!
We love the peach cobbler and now peach pie!! Love your recipes Christy.
Going to make this one today!!
Can you subsitute the Peaches in heavy sprup w/lite peaches and the sugar. My hubby loves Peach pie which was something my Mom would make him from a recipe she had from many, many years. He is now a diabetic and I am trying to find the good old recipes and make them for him. Oh by the way, I am a born and raised in Virginia, but my parents were from Hazel Green, AL. Mom was a true Southern Cook!
Absolutely! you drain them anyway so it will be fine. I hope he likes it!
And if you haven’t tried it yet, check out Ideal sweetener, you can BAKE with it!! It is awesome! I love it.
My Papa has a farm out in Toney!
Love this post about riding a bike. I’m 47 and now have a road bike – you know the one with the skinny tires and you clip your shoes in the pedals. I ride often and still feel like I’m flying! Thanks for always making me smile!
Between my Mom and Dad I have bunches of relatives. I have a uncle in Toney, aunt in Meridianville and bunches of family in Huntsville & Hazel Green. When you come from the Hill (Mom) and Stafford (Dad) there is alot of family.
can I use your pie crust recipe that you make in the pie pan for this pie and other pies????
You can but you might want to make a recipe and a half of mine and make sure you use a deep dish pie pan 🙂
I will assume this is a 9-in frozen pie shell, correct…?
Talking about spring and bikes really got me to thinking. I’m a generation older than you and my bike was my horse!! I dearly loved Roy Rodgers and Dale Evans so I’d ride my “horse” all through the neighborhood!! The pie sounds wonderful.
Gorgeous pie – that looks so delicious! 🙂
I learned to ride on a small boy’s hand-me-down bike – ouch! But, oh, when I received my first “real” girl’s bike (pink with a banana seat from Sears); I was simply in heaven! It came on Christmas morning and I bundled up and took her for a spin in my pajamas.
Christy, Honey, of COURSE we’ll make two! I mean those unbaked pie shells come in twos, anyway! Why not?
What I wanna know is how come it gets so blamed hard to fly on your bike when you get over 50? Those danged peddles just don’t seem to want to turn for me these days.
Guess what? The government has changed things again… there is no longer a food pyramid but now a good plate http://www.choosemyplate.gov. They even make plates for kids to put their food in that shows them how to eat! The local Health Department gave me one to use with my kids cookbook so kids would know which one to put the food in. Most don’t know a donut from a vegetable, sadly.
Hi Christy,
What a great site you have…I need to get my Southern on…especially since live in the deep South!!!
Can this pie be frozen? I’d like to make ahead to have on hand when people come to visit.
Thanks for the great site!!!
Jodie
I LOVED my bicycle when I got it. Wore the tired out on it. But it was so much fun. So I enjoyed your article and this peace pie sounds marvelous. I’ve got to try it. Like you, I love buttermilk in so many things. You know it’s going to be good when you see buttermilk in it. So as soon as I get it ready, come right on in!!!