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 ...

What a lovely chess pie recipe! Perfectly sweet, smooth, and creamy, chess pie is a simple vanilla custard pie. It's uncomplicated and unsophisticated... and that's the beauty of the pie. Most chess ...

Chess pie is a classic Southern custard pie — known for a few distinct ingredients, all of which contribute to the beloved filling’s final texture. Chess pie recipes commonly use cornmeal as a ...

Today on Pie-A-Day we’re serving you Chess Pie With Blackened Pineapple Salsa. It comes from Edward Lee, chef at 610 Magnolia and Milkwood in Louisville, Kentucky. Hear a conversation about Lee’s book ...

(Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks.) Celebrate the holidays with these recipes courtesy of New York Times Cooking, specially chosen for ...

A Southern classic, the lemon chess pie recipe gets an update with a rich shortbread crust, juicy berries and fresh whipped cream. Growing up with a dad who loved any lemon dessert, I have had my ...

You probably have most of the ingredients on hand already. Claire's Chocolate Chess Pie is famous for its rich, velvety texture and is a staple for family gatherings and potlucks. The pie is easy to ...

When Sara Foster was growing up in Tennessee, Sunday lunches meant two things: gathering around the dining room table in her granny Foster’s kitchen and homemade pie. Over the last two decades, Foster ...

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. For the filling, combine all the ingredients but the pie shell in a mixing bowl and stir well. Pour the filling into the pie shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.

It’s the dead of winter, so it seems like a good time to discuss “desperation pie.” That’s a term I learned about earlier this year as I perused the fetching new “The Hoosier Mama Book of Pie: Recipes ...