SC - OOP: Chess Pie
sjk3 at cornell.edu
sjk3 at cornell.edu
Fri Jan 12 08:12:04 PST 2001
> "I'm looking to see if anyone knows the origin of why Chess pie is
> called what it is, <snip>
>
> * * * *
>
> Can anyone help her? I checked several reference books at work,
> but none of them agree. One says it comes from "chest" because
> it keeps well in a pie chest. Another that it is deep like a chest.
> Several sources say the name derives from "cheese". A cute (but
> dubious) story says that the creator of the recipe was asked what
> it was called, and replied, "It's jess' pie."
>
> Brighid, up *far* too late, making stuff to bring to 12th Night
I tried looking this up in the online OED (working for a major
university does have some advantages :-), but had no luck. Webster's
Third New International Dictionary has the following:
"chess pie also chess cake \'ches\ n [prob. alter. of cheese pie, cheese
cake] : a dessert consisting essentially of a filling made of eggs,
butter, and sugar and baked in individual tart shells of rich pastry"
HTH
Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu
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