Buttermilk chess pie
Pies
Chess pie is a Southern staple. If you're from the South, you've probably eaten chess pies on every major holiday since you were old enough to hold a fork. If you're not from the South, chances are you're thinking, "What the heck is chess pie?!?" And indeed, I'd never heard of it either until moving to Nashville. Essentially a chess pie contains 4 things: sugar, eggs, milk, and butter. This version swaps buttermilk for milk, giving the pie a unique flavor and acidity, as well as a splash of lemon (but not so much so that you'd call it a lemon chess pie). That said, the structure and consistency is somewhat similar to a lemon bar, if that helps you Yankees out there to visualize. There's a reason chess pie is also called sugar pie, since it's pretty much 50% sugar. It's sweet, almost too sweet, and that's saying something for someone with a mouth full of sweet teeth like me. That's why the sugared cranberries were so perfect; their tartness was the perfect counterpart to the pie's
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