Lemon Chess Pie

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Title: Lemon Chess Pie
Categories: Inn recipes, Pies
Yield: 1 servings

2 Eggs
4 Egg yolks
1 c Sugar
4 tb Butter; melted
1/4 c Heavy cream
1 tb Flour
1 tb Yellow cornmeal
4 tb Lemon juice
1 tb Grated lemon rind
Unbaked 9 inch pie crust

Preheat oven to 350F. Beat eggs, yolks, and sugar together
at high speed for two minutes. Add butter and cream; beat
again at high speed for two minutes. Add flour, cornmeal,
lemon juice and rind; mix well. Pour into crust and bake 45
~ 60 minutes until top is medium brown. (Test with
toothpick.) Allow to cool to room temperature before
serving with whipped cream topping if desired. Serves: 6
slices.JM.
The Hummingbird Inn Goshen, Virginia. A favorite
throughout the South, chess pie takes its name from the
description given by a cook who was asked what sort of pie
it was, and replied, "It 'jes pie, honey."

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