Old Fashion Pie Recipes: Impossible Coconut, Sugar, and Apple-pecan

Love those old-fashion pies that were always at grandma’s house!  One of the best things about visiting my grandmother’s old-fashion kitchen with it’s huge old metal wood cookstove was the wonderful baked goods sitting on the warmer.  Her biscuits and pies were unbeatable.  If you want to revisit grandma’s kitchen in your own house, here are three old recipes to get you going.  Dora’s Impossible Coconut Pie bakes into its’ own crust.  Mama Harvick’s Sugar Pie is just the plain old sugar pie so famous in the olden days.  And the Apple-Pecan Pie blends two of our favorites into one.

DORA’S IMPOSSIBLE COCONUT PIE

4 eggs1/2 cup oleo1 cup white sugar1/2 cup flour1/2 tsp salt1/2 tsp baking powder2 cups milk1 cup coconut1 tsp vanillaPreheat oven to 350 degrees.Place all the ingredients in a blender, one at a time. Blend until all mixed together. Pour mixture into a buttered 10-inch pie pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. When done, the crust will be on the bottom.

APPLE PECAN PIE

This recipe is from an old newspaper clipping.Sprinkle 1/4 cup chopped pecans on a unbaked 9-inch pie shell.Mix together:1 cup sugar1 tbsp flour1/4 tsp nutmeg1/2 tsp cinnamon5 to 6 cups apples, peeled, sliced or chopped–your preferencePlace mixture over pecans in the pie shell. Dot with 2 tablespoons of butter. Top with the following crumb mixture:

1/2 cup brown sugar1/4 cup butter1/3 cup flour1/4 tsp cinnamon1/4 cup chopped pecansBake at 425 degrees for 45 minutes or until apples are tender.

MAMA HARVICK’S SUGAR PIE

I received this recipe from a dear friend. It is an old recipe in her family.1 1/4 cups sugar1 1/4 cups milk3 tbsp flour1 tsp vanilla4 or 5 thin pats of butter1 unbaked pie shellMix sugar and flour; add milk and vanilla. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake about 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Put pats of butter on top of liquid before putting in oven.

Enjoy!