Sauerkraut Cream Pie

Ingredients:

1 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup lite brownish sugar
ii tablespoons cornmeal
1/2 loving cup buttermilk
1/2 loving cup milk
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 loving cup finely shredded sauerkraut (drained, if necessary)


1 10-inch graham cracker crust

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl, whisk together the sugars as well as cornmeal. Add the buttermilk, milk, eggs, as well as vanilla. Mix until good combined. Fold inwards the sauerkraut. Pour into prepared crust as well as bake for 45 infinitesimal or until "set" (even inwards the rattling center) as well as lightly browned. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

My thoughts:

The other twenty-four lx minutes catamenia I received a tweet from a old Baltimorean bespeak if I had ever had sauerkraut cream pie. My reply was a disappointed "no" but I can't tell that anymore! Unlike approximately sauerkraut "pies" I've come upwards across before, the sauerkraut cream pie is sweet, non savory. I dear sauerkraut as well as am ever interested inwards hearing virtually novel ways to purpose it then I knew I had to brand this pie. The origins of the sauerkraut cream pie is a flake murky but it seems to hail from the midwest where mayhap it won a challenger at a sauerkraut festival. Or maybe it was an Amish recipe. No i seems to know. If I had to guess, I wouldn't move surprised if it was i of those budget as well as ration-stretching wartime recipes that used unexpected ingredients inwards house of ingredients, similar inwards this case, I'd bet coconut, they were unable to get. The finished production is rattling similar texture to a kokosnoot cream pie. If you lot know to a greater extent than virtually the origins of the pie, allow me know inwards the comments.

She constitute a recipe inwards an old Baltimore Sunday article as well as farther googling uncovered a few to a greater extent than recipes but they all appeared to move the same. The few people who appeared to accept genuinely made the pie seemed to discovery the recipe lacking: likewise niggling sauerkraut, a funny texture or the recipe made likewise much. Even though I hadn't had the pie earlier from the recipe as well as descriptions I could tell it was basically a chess pie amongst sauerkraut added. My source also said she remembered it tasting kind of similar a buttermilk pie, which also pointed towards a chess pie, which tastes rattling similarly.

Since I couldn't discovery a satisfactory recipe, I laid out to exercise my ain ultimate sauerkraut cream pie. Chess pies are made amongst milk, eggs, cornmeal as well as an acidic ingredient similar lemon juice or vinegar. I didn't demand to purpose an acidic ingredient because I was using sauerkraut. I wanted to add together a flake of additional depth to the flavour to aid residue the robust sauerkraut then I used buttermilk as well as brownish sugar. Both chess pie as well as sauerkraut pie are traditionally made amongst a pastry crust but I idea it mightiness move tasty as well as lighter inwards a graham cracker crust. I only used a store-bought crust because I didn't accept graham crackers on paw as well as fifty-fifty buying a fancy organic graham crust was cheaper than a box of graham crackers or crumbs as well as I'd yet accept to brand build the pie. Save yourself a flake of effort, peculiarly if you'd purpose store-bought graham crackers anyway. It doesn't brand a deviation inwards this pie.

As for the taste? Not sour or salty at all.It is sweetness amongst a hint of vanilla as well as rattling creamy. One could fifty-fifty telephone yell upwards it "Mock Coconut Pie". Everyone who tasted it, guessed it was a kokosnoot cream pie.