Southern Chess Pie

Total Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 tablespoon cornmeal, rounded
• 1/2 cup softened butter
• 6 egg yolks, beaten
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• 2 (10 inch) uncooked pie crusts
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300°f.
• 2 prepare pie shells by pricking holes into bottoms of pie shells.
• 3 rub mixture of 1 teaspoons flour and 1 teaspoons sugar into holes in the bottom of pie shells to prevent crust from becoming soggy.
• 4 bake pie shells for 10 minutes.
• 5 remove pie shells from oven and increase oven temperature to 350°f.
• 6 for pie filling:.
• 7 mix 1 tbsp flour and 1 tbsp cornmeal well.
• 8 add softened butter, egg yolks, and sugar.
• 9 add milk and sugar, mixing well.
• 10 pour into pie shells.
• 11 bake 45 minutes at 350°f degrees or until pies are set.