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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chess pie is a classic choice if you want a seriously delicious play of textures and flavors all in one dish. While chess pie, comprised of buttery pie crust baked to perfection with creamy custard ...

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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 ...

• Lucy Wiley e-mailed seeking a recipe for chess pie, a classic Southern dessert that is traditionally thickened with fine cornmeal. Several readers responded. I tested two recipes. Ann Criswell, the ...