Made easy with pantry staples.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slice of chess pie with whipped cream on top. - Debbismirnoff/Getty Images If you've never had chess pie, a popular Southern ...

To me, chess pie is an Oklahoma pie with definite Southern accents. For NPR's recent pie contest, I started with my mother's family recipe for Lemon Chess Pie — with a variation inspired by my Aunt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not apple, pumpkin, or pecan. Even though the turkey gets all the attention on Thanksgiving, we all know that the pies are ...

The Buttermilk Chess Pie at Husk. Sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Just four ingredients make up a traditional chess pie, yet there are thousands of recipes and variations. Lisa Donovan is the pastry ...

Hoosier Pie (milk, sugar, flour) I became intrigued with these old fashioned American”desperation” pies, made without fruit or nuts, relying on pantry staples. Then I heard through the ever effective ...

A buttermilk chess pie so good that it has followed a pastry chef around for more than a decade. By Lisa Donovan One of the quiet joys of being a restaurant pastry chef is that you arrive early, ...

The chef of Nashville's Bastion Restaurant shares his spin on the classic southern dessert. The chef of Nashville’s Bastion Restaurant shares his spin on the classic southern dessert. 1 (14.1-oz.) pkg ...

Celebration Pie, a chess pie made with buttermilk and chestnut flour. (Tom McCorkle for The Washington Post) In 19th century Alabama, as one of many tales goes, a freed slave made a living selling ...

Inspired by the Pilot’s dream team of bread bakers, features editor Jim Haag set out to win his own blue ribbon at the State Fair of Virginia. He chose lemon chess pie, one of the less competitive ...

If you've never had chess pie, a popular Southern dessert, it's sort of like the pound cake of pies. There are no fancy fruits or nuts in the filling of this dessert: just sugar, butter, flour, and ...

As part of Pie Week on Morning Edition, Senior National Correspondent Linda Wertheimer shares her chess pie recipe and insights into its origin.... To me, chess pie is an Oklahoma pie with definite ...