These dog days of August make frozen custard more inviting than a pie with a custard filling, but I couldn’t resist the call from Yinzerella of Dinner is Served 1972 for competitors in the 5th annual Pieathlon. I participated once before by making a recipe for Cottage Cheese Apple Pie, which is not as vile as it sounds. This year, Yinzerella collected recipes published before 1990 from food bloggers, and assigned each of us a pie to make and share.
This year’s challenge, Old English Egg Nog Pie came from Retro Food for Modern Times, a fun blog that bills itself as “yesterdays recipes, cooked today.” Originally published in Entertaining with Good Housekeeping (date unknown), the recipe seems fit for a holiday feast. It took three steps to make – crust, custard, and the final addition of whipped cream and egg whites. Luckily, given the sweltering temperatures in Boston this month, only the crust required baking. I modified the original recipe by using melted chocolate to decorate, as my attempt at chocolate shavings ended up looking like dust. I also didn’t have a springform pan, so I used a tart pan instead. The directions worked quite well, but next time I’d add more nutmeg or a teaspoon of vanilla or almond extract to the filling – it was somewhat bland despite the rum and the chocolate topping. Still I was happy to fuel my training for a real triathlon in September!
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It’s a stunning looking pie (with your melted chocolate drizzle)! More booze I say (3T would hardly whet anyone’s whistle, lol)! It’s an inspiring post (perhaps for the upcoming holiday season)…considering it’s coming from Australia where it’s winter now. Loved your posting!
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More rum, more festive!
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This sounds delicious to me. Perhaps I will make it during the holidays.
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What a great holiday pie! I drew a Christmas Pie one year during Pieathalon and it gets HUGE traffic each year during the holidays. I hope the same for you!
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I love egg nog. I love pie. And I love that you made it!
Thank you for joining in this year’s pieathalon. I hope it was fun.
P.S. The drizzle looks better than the shavings IMHO
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Lots of fun to do this! Thanks for organizing all of us. I wish we could taste each other’s pies. Vicarious eating is the next best thing.
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I love that drizzle too! It looks very artistic. The old recipes do tend to be a bit toward the bland side.
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Glad you’re a fan of the topping. 21st century eaters probably like stronger flavors because we are accustomed to global ingredients!
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You made it look so pretty! I’m so glad it kind of worked for you! xx
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Thanks for digging up the recipe! I think the crust would be great with lemon flavored filling, too. An experiment for colder months.
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Sometimes I think bland might have been an ingredient for any recipe pre-1980!?!?!?!? It looks lovely without the shavings…
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Oooh, that sounds nice! My husband makes eggnog every year at Christmas and his recipe calls for both rum and whiskey (he uses bourbon). Maybe a little bourbon would boost the flavor a bit?
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Good idea to add a bit of bourbon!
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There are a lot of eggnog haters out there, but I love it! This is a great Christmas in July recipe for summer months. 😉
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One teaspoon of nutmeg and no other spices? No wonder it was so bland. But it looks lovely. I love your blunt honesty when you say your chocolate shavings turned to dust. Though sometimes a light dusting of chocolate can look charming anyway! 😀
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Thanks for visiting! The challenge of recreating older recipes is whether to alter them too much. If I really need to make chocolate curls, I need a lesson and the right tools, not a chocolate bar and a carrot peeler!
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Custard tart by another name. Always gets my seal of approval.
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mmm. . . this looks absolutely wonderful.
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