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Lemon Chess Pie

Lemon Chess Pie
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Ingredients

  • 3 Tbs. ice-cold heavy cream or evaporated milk, more or less as needed
  • ½ cup chilled vegetable shortening
  • 1 tsp. granulated sugar
  • 1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. grated lemon rind
  • 3 Tbs. fresh lemon juice
  • 3 large eggs
  • + 6 more ingredients
    • 1-½ Tbs. yellow cornmeal
    • ¼ tsp. table salt
    • 1/8 tsp. salt
    • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
    • 1-½ cups sugar
    • ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened

Sift the flour, sugar, and salt together in a medium-size to large bowl. Using a pastry blender, a big serving fork, or the tips of your fingers, cut in or pinch or squeeze the shortening until the mixture resembles a bowl of sweet peas. Tossing the mixture quickly and lightly with a fork, sprink...

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What wines go with Lemon Chess Pie?

Dessert Wines from the U.S.A.
  • Forgeron Cellars Sémillon Yakima Valley Late Harvest
  • Tomasello Winery White Blend American Almonique
  • Alba Dolcina
  • Cribari Sherry
  • Tomasello Winery Vidal Ice Wine
Zibibbo Wines
  • Donnafugata White Blend Sicilia IGT Lighea
  • Donnafugata Ben Ryé Passito di Pantelleria DOC
  • Angove's Zibibbo Sparkling Moscato
  • Donnafugata Ben Ryè Moscato Passito di Pantelleria DOC
  • Angove Pink Zibibbo

Variations on Lemon Chess Pie

  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 4 large eggs, separated
    • 3/4 cup sugar
    • 1/4 cup melted butter
    • 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
    • Garnishes: whipped cream, fresh raspberries
    • +1 other ingredients
  • Lemon Chess PIe
    • 1 (9-inch) deep-dish unbaked piecrust
    • 1 egg white
    • 1 1/2 sugar
    • 2 tablespoons cornmeal
    • 1 T all-purpose flour
    • 3 eggs
    • 2 t lemon zest
    • 3 T lemon juice
    • +1 other ingredients
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
    • 1 tablespoon cornmeal
    • 1 1/2 cups sugar
    • 4 large eggs
    • 1 tablespoon lemon rind
    • +2 other ingredients
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 1/4 teaspoon salt
    • 1/2 (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
    • 4 large eggs, lightly beaten
    • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • +7 other ingredients
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 1/2 (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
    • Lemon Chess Pie Filling
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 1/4 cup plus 1/2 tablespoon chilled solid vegetable shortening
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
    • 4 large eggs
    • +11 other ingredients
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • 2 c sugar
    • 1 T all-purpose flour
    • 1 T cornmeal
    • 4 eggs
    • 1/4 c butter, melted
    • 1/4 c milk
    • 2 to 4 tablespoons grated
    • 1/4 c fresh lemon juice
  • Lemon Chess Pie
    • Juice of 3 large lemons
    • 3 large lemons
    • 1 1/2 cups sugar
    • 1/3 cup butter, melted
    • 5 large eggs
    • One 9-inch unbaked pie shell


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