Karens Buttermilk Pie Recipes

KAREN'S BUTTERMILK PIE

Steps:

• Combine sugar and butter until well blended. Add the eggs and mix well.
• Add the flour and salt and blend.
• Add buttermilk and the vanilla and stir until well mixed.
• Pour into 9 inch or larger pie shells and bake at 350 degrees until the pie no longer jiggles in the middle. I bake mine for 45 minutes, however, depending on your oven it may take up to 30 minutes longer.
• Cool before cutting. Note: This can be made with a mixer and is also easy to do without one.

BUTTERMILK PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C).
• Beat eggs until frothy; add butter, sugar and flour. Beat until smooth.
• Stir in buttermilk, vanilla, lemon juice and nutmeg; pour into pie shell.
• Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until center is firm.

CHOCOLATE BUTTERMILK PIE

Steps:

• Combine sugar and butter and mix until well blended.
• Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and mix well.
• Combine and whisk the flour, cocoa, and salt until mixed. Then add to the butter mixture.
• Add buttermilk and vanilla to the mixture. Stir until well mixed.
• Pour into pie shells and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Or, as oven temperatures vary, bake as long as it takes for the pie to be firm and not jiggle in the middle.
• Cool completely before cutting. Store leftover pie in the refrigerator.
• Note: I used an electric mixer though this recipe can easily be mixed by hand. Adapted from Karen's Buttermilk Pie My older sister Karen always made the Buttermilk Pie for our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, and though I'm not sure where she got her recipe, I am sure that it was the best Buttermilk Pie that anyone in our family ever made. Yes, even better than mine. My beloved sister passed away in 1999 a few days after Christmas. The following year I decided to make her Buttermilk Pie in honor of her. I contacted family members and began a search for her recipe. To my dismay no one had it. My mother said my sister had written down the recipe for her, however, after searching she could not find it either. Each year I make a buttermilk pie from recipes I have found in books and online and none of them tasted the same. I am happy to say that while looking through old recipes of my mother's, after 13 years, I found my sister's handwritten recipe in time to bake it for Thanksgiving and my family got to enjoy a piece of Karen's Buttermilk Pie as we reminisced about her and holidays past.

KAREN'S BEST BUTTERMILK BISCUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 390 degrees.
• In large bowl wisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In medium bowl wisk buttermilk, yogurt and egg.
• On a chilled cutting board, cut 1 stick of butter into 1/4 inch pieces using knife blade only to move pieces around while cutting.
• Add to flour mixture, toss lightly with finger tips.
• Add shortening to flour mixture, dropping a 1/2 teaspoon at a time.
• Rub butter and shortening into flour mixture, using fingertips only-so heat from hands does not melt the butter. Mix until it resembles course crumbs.
• Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture. Stir just until evenly moistened.
• Turn out on floured board. Sprinkle a little flour on top.
• Fold dough in half- 5 times, shaping dough into a rectangle as you fold.
• Pat out till 1 3/4 inches thick.
• Cut 6 biscuits into 2 inch rounds.
• Gather left over pieces of dough and shape into same size biscuit.
• Place biscuits on large ungreased baking sheet. Space 2 inches apart.
• Bake 17-18 minutes, brushing with melted butter the last 2 minutes.
• Place baked biscuits under broiler 1 minute.
• Serve warm.

BUTTERMILK PIE III

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until smooth. mix in the flour, eggs, buttermilk and vanilla. Pour filling into pie shell. Sprinkle top with nutmeg.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until golden brown.