Grandma Lucy’s Pimento Cheese

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pimento cheese sandwich

Today I’m bringing you a much beloved recipe from the South. From what I read and hear, it isn’t nearly as popular outside of our little geographic region as it is here, but folks in these parts consider it a staple in every home!

Long before the days of snack cakes and convenience foods, Pimento Cheese sandwiches dominated minds when it came to a “quick bite to eat” or a “little lunch”. They were cheap and delicious on plain old white bread, although I serve mine on wheat these days.

I remember going to Grandmama and Grandaddy’s house and finding one or both sitting at their kitchen table having a pimento cheese sandwich and a glass of milk. They’d always ask “Ya want some puh-men-ah cheese, baby?”. I never refused.

I’ve wanted to get this recipe up on here for a while and asked Grandmama how she made her pimento cheese so I could bring you the taste I remember so well. She immediately said “Oh, now if you want the best pimento cheese, you gotta use Velveeta.”

What better time to bring you this than during my time serving as a Velveeta Kitchenista? I hope you’ve been visiting Velveeta It!’s facebook page this month as myself and four other Mom bloggers present a new Velveeta recipe each day but if you haven’t you can still breeze on over there and catch up on all of the wonderful tips and recipes that have been shared so far! Just visit www.facebook.com/velveeta and be sure to drop a howdy to me there this Thursday when I’ll be hosting Tasty Traditions Thursdays!

You’ll need: 16 ounce block of Velveeta, Pimentos, and a little Mayo.

pimento cheese ingredients

Grate your Velveeta. Now Velveeta is a little on the soft side so I found an easy way of doing this. You remember play-doh? Just get your grater out and place the block of Velveeta against it and press into the grater. It comes out the other side quick and easy as can be and ends up being a lot less work than grating a block of cheddar.

Dump in a jar of drained pimentos. I used the small jar which is about 2 ounces.

pimento cheese ingredients in mixing bowl

Add about 1/2 cup of Mayonnaise. You can add more to taste if you like.

Mix ingredients together

Stir that up well.

Grandmama doesn’t salt and pepper hers so I didn’t either. I found it to be utterly sublime as is but feel free to salt and pepper (and even garlic!) yours if you got a hankerin’ to.

Serve on a sandwich or crackers.

These are a standard at every party, too. There is nothing like little finger pimento cheese sandwiches with the crusts trimmed off to add an air of tradition to a gathering!

Did you eat pimento cheese growing up? Do you have a different recipe or a special Pimento Cheese memory?

Tell me about it in the comments!

 

Grandma Lucy’s Pimento Cheese

Ingredients

  • 16 ounce block Velveeta
  • 2 ounce jar Pimentos drained
  • 1/2 C Mayonnaise

Instructions

  • Push Velveeta through a grater until all is grated in a bowl. Add Pimentos and Mayo. Stir well. Salt and pepper if desired. Serve on loaf bread.
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276 Comments

  1. The traditional “Sandwich ” that is served at every Masters Golf Tournament is a pimento cheese sandwich. It’s a tradition that goes back over 50 years. They wrap them in green wax paper and only charge $1.50 for it and sell thousands every day. Every time I go to the Masters I have at least two sandwiches a day. I’m sure they use Velvetta cheese, I’d love to see them making them, they must have a big mixer!

    Ps., theirs are good, but yours is better. Suggest a little red pepper to kick it up a notch.

  2. O.k., this recipe is simple and awesome. It is great as is.
    Thanks for the St. Francis quote too. It took a minute to sink in. 🙂

  3. Your recipe is spot on with the way my mother made pimiento cheese spread. It truly makes one of the best tasting comfort food sandwiches I’ve ever had.
    A few years ago, I started (occasionally) making mine (always the same ingredients as yours) with the addition of a couple of light shakes of garlic powder and some finely diced pecans. Those occasional deviations are usually when I take a platter of sandwiches to a get together at church or school where I teach. Everyone raves about them with that small change. It adds a little bit of a crunch, and the flavors really complement the pimiento cheese. I guess you’d kinda call it “dressed up” for a party.

  4. If you will add a little bit of sugar and let it marry the other ingriedkents, it will take the sharpness off of the pimentoes.

  5. I love home made pimento cheese.My recipe would be the same with the exception of ,I use cheddar(my gra ndmother’s way).Next time I will use the velveeta.I’m 73 now and I find every easier and faster recipe I can.It does have to be just as good as the hard way t hough.lol.Hope to see you at the Cornbread Festival this year.South Pittsburg is my home town,where I w as born and raised.My Dad r an the shiipping department for Lodge till he retired.I still have the s ame cast iron skillets etc as I had when I first married in the mid 50s and it is still as good as when new.Nothing like it.The generics out there just don’t get it.lol.

  6. I remember having this with my Mom, who also liked to put sweet pickle relish in the mix. I haven’t made it from scratch for years – usually taking the short cut of buying premade from the store (lazy I know and just not the same at all). We used this to stuff celery and for carrots as a dip – anyone else do that? It’s yummy. Thanks for bringing back great memories.

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