Category: Recipes

I love bread pudding. My mom makes the best bread pudding and I love it warm with evaporated milk or even ice cream. This pie is doubly delicious. It tastes great as a bread pudding and the texture of a pie with the flaky pie crust. It would definitely be delicious with ice cream and caramel sauce. I used a 9-inch stainless steel pie pan, which is one of my favorites. Kitchen Kneads has this pan and it is a must in the kitchen. This pie is another pie with bare-bones ingredients. Pies with bare-bones ingredients are turning into some of my favorites, which can be made on a day where you want some quality home hygge time to be together with family and friends and not have to run to the store for ingredients. This is a fast and easy pie. We could also call this a food storage pie.

Chocolate Chess pie is now known as a southern pie, but just where did the name come from? The origin is rather unclear; some attribute the name to its ancestor, the cheese tart, while others believe it was named for Chester County, or for the pie chest that is was kept in.

Custard is a classic taste and texture that has been a staple in the pie world for many generations. The smell of this pie baking will take you back to your grandmother’s kitchen. This same custard can be used in individual custard cups and baked for a simple, yet delicious no-crust dessert. You can use this custard recipe as a basis for your crème brule dessert in ramekins with a hardened sugar crust.

Chocolate Cream Pie…I can’t think of anything more delicious. But again, I love chocolate and especially dark chocolate. When you think of chocolate cream pie you may think, “I will just mix up a box of pudding and pour it into a pie shell.” I will admit, I USED to do that. This pie will convert you to the SCRATCH side of baking. The flavor is delicious and it’s so easy to make. This chocolate filling is cooked on the stove while the crust is baked. Then the filling is poured into the baked pie shell, cooled, then refrigerated. I love fruit paired with chocolate. Raspberries and strawberries are two of my favorites. The pies that we have been blogging have for the most part been bare bones ingredients. I love this since we are spending so much time at home and have time to prepare delicious desserts for family meals. 

Ever heard of a Water Pie? It is often referred to as the Great Depression Water Pie. Six bare-bones ingredients blended together create a delicious easy pie. As I think of the depression, we learn about that time of history in school. I am fortunate enough to hear first-hand stories. One of my grandmothers grew up in the depression. As a little girl, she remembers people knocking on the door and asking her mother for food. I would read stories of this in school, but to have firsthand experience brings gratitude to how much we have today in our lives. I have found that I love depression era fabrics, quilt patterns, and recipes of a time that can teach us so much in developing character and our integrity in creating beauty, clothes, and delicious meals.

Lemon Buttermilk Pie is an old fashioned dessert from the South. It’s basically a custard pie, but in the place of cream we use buttermilk,

Maple Buttermilk Custard Pie is a creamy smooth that is sweet, but also has a little bit of twang from the buttermilk. This pie will make a perfectly festive addition to your Thanksgiving pie table.

Chess Pie is another pie born out of desperation. It’s simple in ingredients, but so so good. It’s very sweet, so a little goes a long way. Made mostly of milk, sugar, and eggs, but with the addition of cornmeal it’s another variation on a custard pie. It’s been a staple of southern kitchens for a couple hundred years and us westerners have been missing out.