SC - Children and Cooking

[Mark S. Harris]

Gently meet,

Well, being inordinately fond of chess pie, here's what I was told
concerning it.  Chess pie is a firm pie, usually not fruit, something
like coconut cream, banana, caramel or something.  The pie was made with
a firm filling, because they were baked on plantations in the South, and
transported to the workers in the fields (assumedly the
supervisors/overseers) in chests that had shallow drawers, each large
enough to hold one pie.  The term chest pie got shortened to chess
pie--which it has remained.

Whatever its lineage, it's wonderful!

Gently,
Damascena