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Lemon Chess Pie Recipe

A cross between Lemon Shaker Pie and Southern Chess Pie, it's so lemony and garnished with raspberries, on a delicious tart crust.
Prep Time1 day
Cook Time45 minutes
Total Time1 day 45 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8
Author: Angela Roberts

Ingredients

  • 4 organic lemons
  • 2 cups of sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 4 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Handful of fresh or frozen raspberries can use blueberries (optional)
  • 1 tablespoon sugar for berries

Pie Crust

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 9 tablespoons ice cold unsalted butter cubed
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons ice cold water might need one more

Instructions

Filling for Lemon Chess Pie

  • Zest all lemons into sugar.
  • Slice off the white pith of all the lemons.
  • Reserve one whole lemon, and put in freezer for 15 minutes.
  • Slice that lemon and put in separate bowl, with just enough of the zested sugar to cover. Cover with plastic. Refrigerate.
  • Slice remaining three lemons and put into the remaining sugar, making sure all lemons are covered.
  • Refrigerate for a minimum of 24 hours.
  • Refrigerate berries with sugar.
  • Make Pie Dough (below). Refrigerate until ready to use.
  • After 24 hours, remove lemon/sugar mixture from refrigerator. (the one with the three lemons)
  • In a food process or Vitamix type blender, add lemon sugar mixture, eggs, vanilla, flour and mix well.
  • Add melted butter. Mix again.
  • Take pie dough of refrigerator, and roll out into your pie pan or tart pan.
  • Fork holes into pie dough.
  • Prebake pie dough at 400 degress for 10 minutes. You shouldn't have any trouble with it rising off the pie pan. Just gently move it down with back of a spoon if it rises.
  • Pour lemon mixture into the pie crust.
  • Take out the sliced lemon and remove from the sugar. This is garnish.
  • Decorate top with sliced lemons and raspberries.
  • Bake for 40-45 minutes at 375 degrees.

Pie Dough

  • Incorporate flour, sugar and salt in food processor. Add butter and count to 10. At this point, you should have pea sized butter. If not, pulse until you do.
  • Add water. Pulse until incorporated. A few seconds at a time.
  • Put in plastic bag. It will come together. (see video)
  • When ready to roll out, leave on counter for 15 minutes.