SC - OOP: Chess Pie
Sunraven
shoshanah at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 14 19:01:08 PST 2001
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
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