RECIPE: Vinegar Pie

[bayoutider]

Don't be alarmed, bayoutider isn't crazy. Despite the name, most people will think you are serving them lemon pie. This is a very old recipe, over 100 years old, when the winter months made fresh fruits and such hard to find. People made pies such as this to satisfy their craving for something sweet.

1 pie crust, you only need a bottom and a frozen pie crust will do just fine.

1 1/4 cups sugar or splenda

1/4 cup flour

1 tablespoon grated lemon zest

1/2 cup cider vinegar

2 cups water

3 large eggs well beaten

1 tablespoon butter

Preheat oven to 425F

Combine flour, sugar and lemon zest in a heavy saucepan and blend them together. Using a whisk, blend in the cider vinegar and water. Place pan over medium heat and bring to a slow boil stirring continuously. Let boil for 1 minute and remove from heat. Pour a little of the mixture into the beaten eggs to temper them. Stir the tempered eggs back into the saucepan and stir in the butter.

Pour the mixture into the prepared pie shell and bake 10 minutes then reduce the temperature to 350F and bake for another 30 minutes.

Carefully remove the pie from the oven to a cooling rack. The pie will still seem quite liquid but will continue to firm up as it cools. Now would be a good time to dust with a little cinnamon or nutmeg on top.

Trust me, if you want to serve something a little different, this is a very good pie.

 

[BamaGoose]

BT,

Just in honor of all the recipes posted on the grillin' and chillin' forum I went back to the beginning of the forum as it started back after the great server crash in 2004. A total of 1238 posts I believe.

Anyway, I tried this out. The vinegar pie indeed tasted a lot like Lemon Pie. My late Ma Keel made a lemon pie and this tasted like it in a way.

Thanks again..

P.S- I am going to find some old school recipes from 2004 and try them out.

 

[bayoutider]

Thank you BamaGoose. Finally someone had the nerve to try this delicious pie. I'm sure some thought it was some kind of bad joke but I seem to remember it was a favorite of President Thomas Jefferson. I have several more real old desert recipes if you are interested.

I still make this pie every thanksgiving.

 

[BamaGoose]

Hook a brother up....

I would appreciate any ol' recipes you may have. I miss the good old fashioned recipes my late grandma's and mom used to make.

 

[SCrammerjammer]

I think you'd also like a good buttermilk pie--made by my late aunt many years ago in south Mississippi. I found a good recipe in a Dori Sanders cookbook. Dori is a storyteller from SC--lovely black lady with a great mind for the good old days. You can google her for her cookbook.

OK. Just got back from Google's place. Here is a link to Dori's buttermilk pie. I apologize if this is considered hijacking a thread:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,dory,FF.html

 

[bayoutider]

Marlboro Pie Recipe

No you do not begin with a pack of smokes. This is another pie that dates back to colonial times when fresh apples were not available but canned apples or apple sauce was.

INGREDIENTS:

Juice and peel of 1 lemon (omit if using applesauce)
2 large fresh apples or 1 cup applesauce
1 cup sugar (use only 1/3 cup if applesauce is used)
3 eggs
1/2 cup butter
1 pie shell or puff pastry for bottom crust

DIRECTIONS:

If fresh apples are used, follow Step 1. - If using applesauce begin with Step 2)

1. Squeeze lemon and grate peel into large bowl. Grate apples and lemon juice and toss to coat apples to prevent darkening.

2. Pour sugar over fruit and mix well.

Beat eggs until light. Cream butter until soft and add eggs, blending well. Stir butter and egg mixture into sweetened fruit and spoon into pie shell.

Bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees F. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F. and bake 45 minutes more or until knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool before serving.

 

[bayoutider]

TTT

Flash from the past in case anyone wants to make something a little different for Thanksgiving. Trust me, this is a good pie that tastes a lot like lemon custard. It's very easy and cheap to make.

 

[BigCountry]

Yeah country folks were pretty crafty and could make do with hardly any special ingredients. I got this same recipe, or one alot like it , from an old New Hope Holiness Church recipe book. Momma Pearl used to make these alot and the vinegar is not the focal point of the pie.

 

[bayoutider]

ttt

 

[BamaLuver]

Ok Bayou -- I'm gonna give this recipe to my Mom! She loves to try new things. Your comment about lemon custard won me over!!

 

[bayoutider]

Ok Bayou -- I'm gonna give this recipe to my Mom! She loves to try new things. Your comment about lemon custard won me over!!

The recipe is one of 3 I make that date back to Thomas Jefferson.

I almost forgot this is a type of chess pie.

 

[BamaLuver]

I turned my nose up every time Bayou posted his recipe for Vinegar Pie! Am now bound & determined to give it a try!

 

[TideRollsInVa]

BamaLuver; calling you on this one, once you report that you have tried, I will too.