Life on the Road

What a fun idea!  Overwhelmed with Joy brings us the 2nd Annual Holiday Cooking, Blogger Style Recipe Exchange!

This is my favorite recipe for any festive occasion.  It’s an old family recipe from Mississippi (that would be Wolf’s family).  And don’t worry, it tastes nothing like buttermilk!  Maybe we should change the name to Sugar Pie…

Buttermilk Pie

Makes 2 pies

2 1/2 c. sugar
1 1/2 sticks butter
4 eggs
3 Tbsp. flour
3/4 c. buttermilk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. coconut extract
2 9″ pie shells

Preheat oven to 400.

Cream butter and sugar thoroughly.  Add flour and eggs, mix well.  Add vanilla, buttermilk, and extract, mix well.  Pour into pie shells.

Set oven to 350.  Bake 1 hour, until pie doesn’t shake.

Tiffany’s notes:

• Depending on your location and oven, this may work best of you cover the edges with shields (or just foil!) to keep them from overcooking.
• We have tried this with many different types of extract in place of coconut.  Although they are interesting, for some reason it just doesn’t have that certain “something.”  Even Wolf, who dislikes coconut in general, prefers it the “original” way.
• Why set the oven to 400, then turn it down to 350 when you put the pies in?  I don’t know…  but it works much better if you do!  (Presumably it has to do with the heat you let out when you open the door to put the pies in, eh?)