Old Fashioned Buttermilk Chess Pie - Recipe

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A cross between a buttermilk pie, and a chess pie.. It's all south and full of flavour!

1½ cups sugar
1 tablespoon cornmeal
2 tablespoons AP flour
Pinch of salt
½ cup of butter, melted
½ cup of buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 large eggs
Zest from one lemon
Juice of ½ of a lemon
1 9" unbaked pie shell

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Whisk together the sugar, cornmeal, flour and salt. To that add the butter, buttermilk, and vanilla & mix. Beat the eggs, and add to sugar mix. Stir in lemon zest and juice. Pour mixture into the pie shell.

Bake at 350ºF for 30-35 minutes until golden brown and set.