Learn how to make a Buttermilk Pie! One of America's most underappreciated pies! Visit foodwishes.blogspot.com/2017/... for the ingredients, more information, and many, many more video recipes. I hope you enjoy this Buttermilk Pie!
My great grandmother used to make these. My favorite pie as a kid. She used lard in the crust. Her crusts were actually famous enough that a local well known BBQ house paid her for her pies. Thanks for the memory.
this is the taste of my childhood - my grandmother, rest her soul, would make this for me. thank you chef john. she's been gone a long time - and so many of her recipes were lost over the years...and even more of them, she never wrote down at all. i made this today - on her birthday. thank you so very much.
I had one of these in 2013 in Boston, a friend of my aunt, a woman who grew up in Tennessee, made one. She learned the recipe from the nanny that raised her. It was so good that I interrupted everyone’s conversation at dinner to rave for 5 minutes about how it was the greatest thing I ever tasted. This pie was so good that I lost all sense of shame or manners. Never to this day have I had anything that can even be mentioned in the same breath, it was beyond comparison or description. Frankly I’m becoming emotional just thinking about it. I made this pie and it was good, but I’ve given up trying to match the heaven I tasted that day.
I know is 3 years late..but here it is.. I enjoyed your comment so much! Also, as someone who allways has guests at the table, I know is very nice when someone tells the food is good. Good for you that you took the time to praise the pie! All the best to you!
Its funny, not only was I born and raised in the south, but my mother's, mother's, side of the family, was from Kentucky, yet I've never even heard of this lol.
Thank You! My mother made buttermilk pie when I was a kid and I loved it. Unfortunately my mother didn't believe in teaching boys to cook so I never learned how to make it. I've long missed this delicious pie and have never seen a recipe for it anywhere.
Buy a Martha White Southern Sampler cookbook. Its my go-to cookbook for all my favorites (I'm a southern girl so its really all we ever eat! ). Its like having a Methodist or Baptist women's cookbook, which is the epitome of perfection
I live in North Georgia. Buttermilk pie was a recipe given to me from my husband's grandmother after I got married. Very important stuff in the south! It is so delicious
"and for maybe the first time ever i remembered to leave my butter out" - most relatable sentence i have ever heard, except that i have never remembered lmao
Chef John you made no mistake in mixing by hand. I tried the recipe with an electric mixer and the filling separated. It looked like a science project. Lesson learned. You are the man at mixing by hand. 😉
I am from Texas and my paternal grandfather made Buttermilk pie and Lemon Chess pie for family occasions. I loved them both as a child, but my favorite was the Buttermilk pie. It has a perfect mix of richness, sweetness and tang. I agree with Chef John when he says he is surprised it hasn't caught on in the rest of the country. The recipe's simplicity speaks to the poorer times it originated in. But this pie rises above its humble origins, if that can be said of a pie, LOL! Everyone who hasn't, should try it. Thank you, Chef John! I am nostalgic for that flavor and grateful you reminded me of something I had sort of forgotten. I am going to use your recipe as soon as I can find some fresh nutmeg!!
Secretly? Don't forget that with all his Georgia charm Alton's cultivated, he actually grew up in Los Angeles.... hence his love for much deeper (well, more map worthy southern) southern cooking. (I ain't disparaging that at all) The deep fruity heat of a couple habanero chilis, in that Buttermilk pie.... Heaven....
@greyhaze ind mate you shouldn't be doing that do you really wanna go back to were you was and dude eat foods you make never eat premade crap and factory created foods as these also contain nasty chemicals you ain't want in your body I could go on mate but I hope you see sense in eating natural foods make your own butter with natural unrefined and chemical butter using natural fats is much healthier in a balanced diet and so on
Greyhaze, buttermilk by itself is a very healthy beverage. It was originally what was left after the butter got churned out of the whole milk. Now, of course, it's made deliberately, standardized, controlled. It still has little flecks in it. It's nutritious and feels rich and tangy. It's some of the other pie ingredients that aren't for daily overuse, and lately, doctors are saying butterfat isn't as horrible as other fats. It's industrial fats that are dangerous. Buttermilk isn't what causes stokes and cardiac blockages/ischemia. It's morbid obesity, genetic predisposition, and the complications of Type II. Not only that, but the most recent evidence says bypasses may not be that effective, that conservative nonsurgical measures may be as good or better.
God bless you sir, and your culinary wisdom. You beautiful hairy handed bastard. Keep these videos coming Chef. Always a treat to try one of your recipes.
my dear grandmother used to make this pie when i was a little boy and i'm almost 65 now. it was the best pie ever, she was so dear to me and i miss her she passed in 2012. a lady that i will love and remember.
So, I made this and the very first thing that came to mind when it melted on my tongue was, “well I just found my new secret lemon bar recipe base”.... hats off chef John, this is marvelous
i was worried you were never gonna say "around the outside, around the outside, around the outside" I'll be stocked if you answered me your holiness, Chef John the Great, creator of food, destroyer of takeaways.
I was too. I was also so certain that we were going to get the oooold tappa tappa when instead he just turned the baking dish about halfway around for no apparent reason.
My New Orleans native grandmother made buttermilk pie. I was shocked to see it up here in my local Albuquerque, NM, Albertsons. It wasn't Maw-Maw's, but it was better than none. This promises to rival her secret recipe. Thank you so much!! This is one of the down home treats I miss.
I've learned so much from you Chef John. Thank you for the education. I made this for a church fundraiser and they absolutely loved it. Again, thank you for all the long hours and uploads.
Dissing on scrapple? First time Chef John ever brought a frown to my face instead of a smile. He's in (Pa) dutch with me! Doing it again would be amishtake.
That and Haggis are amazing but I think their ingredients turn people off from trying them. I made them at work and told everyone the haggis was stuffing and the scrapple was sausage. Everyone raved about them until they learned what they actually were. Suddenly they didn’t care for it.
My Mother's side of the family were Pennsylvania-Dutch. This is actually a traditional favorite summertime pie among these people. I wonder how the Pennsylvania-Dutch in Canada are connected to Kentuckians. This pie is so delicious and refreshing!!!
I was just about to ask if you would consider doing your version of South African Milk Tart but I guess this comes pretty close! Come to think of it, same happened when I thought of Cannelés Bordelais, you posted the video the very next day!
I’ll be honest, I don’t cook or bake much but I LOVE your videos. Your voice, personable instructions and culinary masterpieces are all captivating. 😊😊
A restaurant I used to eat at years ago served buttermilk pie with a slice of lime. It was the most delicious pie I ever had in my life. Now, I cant eat buttermilk pie without the lime... so yummy!
My Grand Mother use to make these and would I pass all other pies at a family gathering to get a slice of hers . I’ve had her recipe for yrs and enjoy making it around the holidays .
just made this, my husband and i love it! I just gave 2 pies to my neighbors and will make one more tomorrow! Thank you very very much Chef John for the epic recipe and skillset once again!
YASSSS! I never heard of buttermilk pie until I moved to TN. I've made it for people all over the US. It's a fantastic pie. My husbands absolute favorite. I will say though that his family recipe does not use lemon at all, but I've made it both ways.
Chef john, you really should make a homemade scrapple video, i recently got some from a deli in Pennsylvania and it was nothing compared to what it was 12 to 15 yrs ago! Ive watced almost all your videos and i hope you decide to make my food wish a reality!!
Good scrapple is made the day the hogs are butchered because the hogs head is boiled and the meat is pulled off and mixed with liver and cornmeal and seasonings. The meat is ground fine and mixed with the cornmeal seasoning mix and cooked then put in loaf pans to 'set'. When it cools it gets thick and is sliced ---and it's best fried until crisp and eaten with ketchup IMO but some people put maple syrup on it.
THANK YOU! Now I know what this delicious pie is called. I've enjoyed it many times, but it seems no one could ever tell me it's name. You are a God-send!
Darn you to Heck you Diabolical Diet Destroyer!! You bait the weak and innocent with your fluffy concoctions as we watch your mastery at creating mouth watering dishes within minutes. And for those of us (Okay, it's probably just me) who watch in the middle of the night, wiping the drool off of the corner of our mouths (once again, probably just me) and realize with absolute horror that we don't have all of those ingredients on hand. So in my PJ's in the middle of the night I can only bang my head on the computer desk and have a bowl of Cocoa Krispies...all your fault!!!!! But of course, WE ALL LOVE YA!!!!! Best wishes, LOVE your videos
This pie is very popular in Pennsylvania Dutch areas, like Southern Ontario. This was my Moms favourite pie in the Summertime because she found it so refreshing.
I've lived in the South all of my life, and until reading about Buttermilk Pie in a novel recently, had never heard of it. Chef John to the rescue! I'm going to have to try this. Thanks!
RazzUK You have tarts, which are not as thick, and buttermilk is not a commonly featured ingredient in your cooking. So you may have something similar, but probably doesn’t taste the same. Brits don’t do as many sweet pies as Americans do. That’s one huge difference I have noticed between the two cultures. Meat pies just aren’t popular in the US as they are in the UK.
Thank you so much! I was gonna say this reminds me of my grandmas chess pie 🥰 I’m from oklahoma and thought “maybe we just call it something different”
If you want to improve your blind baking skills you may try to crumple the parchment paper a few times. That way it's so much easier to lay it inside the dish. Also you may want to use spare coins instead of those ceramic ball, because coins conduct heat much better than ceramics and that is what you want when blind baking.
