[Leica] IMG: Chocolate Chess Pie

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks for looking, Tina.

If you have the basic recipe, my wife's recipe card has two extra sentences:

      For chocolate pie, melt 2 squares of chocolate with butter

      For pecan pie, add 1 cup of broken pecans

On 11/28/20 2:33 PM, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> Yum!!  I love chess pie but have never tried the chocolate version.  Looks
> like something I should add to my menu!
>
> Tina
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:11 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>> Living alone, I seldom get to contribute to the food porn from the likes
>> of Nathan, et. al.  Today, I have one to add to the list.
>>
>> My youngest son, about Nathan's age, lives some distance away, so we
>> keep in touch electronically.  He enjoys cooking, when he has time, and
>> has many of my late wife's recipes.  Today, he sent me a photo of a
>> Chess Pie he had just baked.
>>
>> Everyone's first question is "What is a Chess Pie?"  Well, its origin,
>> so far as I know, comes from early settlers in this country and probably
>> originally comes from England.  It can be made from ingredients normally
>> found in the kitchen in periods where fruits and nuts are not readily
>> available.  When asked what kind of pie she had made, the cook usually
>> said, "Oh it's jes' pie."  Supposedly, from this the name "Chess Pie"
>> was coined.  Variations include Chocolate Chess Pie and Pecan Chess Pie.
>>
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20201126-62810222345__BA1CADF1-302C-4D01-8F8E-F483AEAB0682.JPG.html
>>
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>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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Jim Nichols
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