ISO: recipe for Vinegar Pie

[Amayesing]

Good evening ladies,

I'm definitely from the south but I never heard of vinegar pie until one of the gentlemen in our building baked one for a fundraiser dinner. That pie was so good but now he won't share his recipe(I just asked him again yesterday). It's very similar to a custard pie but it doesn't have eggs in it. If anyone has a recipe, please share:)

[cat lover]

Vinegar Pie


Baked 9" pie pastry
2 cups water
1/2 cup all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 eggs, beaten till frothy
6 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tsp lemon extract

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a heavy 2 quart saucepan bring the water to a boil. In a small bowl combine flour and sugar and toss with a fork to blend. Add the flour sugar mixture to boiling water and cook whisking often till thickened about 6 minutes. Remove from heat and slowly add the eggs whisking vigorously. Return to medium low heat and cook whisking till smooth about 3 minutes. Add the vinegar and lemon extract and whisk just to blend.
Pour into the cooled pastry shell and refrigerate until set about 3 hours.

Here is one I got from doing a search; haven't made the following one:


Unbaked Single Flaky Pie Crust

Filling:
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
5 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tbsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tsp ground cloves
2-1/2 cups water
4 eggs
6 tbsp. cinder vinegar, preferably unrefined

Flaky Pie Crust:
1/4 cup lard, chilled
1/4 cup unsalted butter, chilled
1/4 cup vegetable shortening, preferably Crisco, chilled
2 cups soft wheat flour such as White Lily or cake and pastry flour, preferably, or all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
5 to 7 tbsp. ice water

Directions:
FOR THE PIE CRUST: Using a food processor, a bowl with a pastry blender, or your fingers, cut the lard, butter and vegetable shortening into the flour and salt. Whatever method you choose, be careful not to overwork the dough, which would reduce flakiness. Add the water a few tablespoons at a time, until the dough just holds together. Divide the dough into two mounds, wrap them in plastic, and refrigerate them at least 30 minutes (or wrap one mound for the freezer, if you don’t plan to use it in the next couple of days).

If the pie crust is to be baked, preheat the oven to 400 F.

On a floured board or pastry cloth, roll out the dough in a circle a couple of inches larger than the pie pan. To avoid stretching the dough excessively, roll it from the center outwards, lifting the rolling pin after each stroke rather than rolling back over the dough in the opposite direction. Loosen the dough, drape it around the rolling pin, and center the crust over the pan, dropping it gently into place.

If you’re making a one crust pie, crimp the edges decoratively. If your pie is to have two crusts, roll out the second mound of dough, too.

For a single pre-baked crust, prick the dough in several spots. Cover the pie shell with foil, and weight the foil with dried beans or pie weights. Bake the crust for 10 minutes, and then lower the temperature to 350 F. and bake for an additional 15 minutes, or follow the directions in your pie recipe.

FOR THE FILLING: Preheat the oven to 400 F. Bake the pie crust for 10 minutes. Remove the crust, and reduce the heat to 350 F.

Make the pie filling: In the top pan of a double boiler, beat the butter and sugar together with a hand mixer. Add the flour and spices, and beat well. Beat in the water, eggs, and vinegar.

Place the pan over its water bath and cook over medium low heat until the filling thick, stirring frequently. Pour the filling into the partially baked crust. Bake for 30 minutes, until the filling is the consistency of jellied cranberry sauce.

Serve the pie hot or at room temperature. Makes 1 pie.

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Are you sure your friend just isn't trying to fool you with "it has no eggs in it"? The one I've made does and all that I found on a search does also. Maybe someone else has a version that is eggless?

[Amayesing]

These sound delicious. I don't know if he was joking or not, but that's what he said. I thought it was egg custard

[Amayesing]

Thank you so much

[cat lover]

If you make one I'd be interested in if either of them are similair to the one your neighbor made or not! Good Luck!

[cat lover]

I know the ISO here was for vinegar pie, but here is a Vinegar Cake recipe; just thought anyone looking for one might like the other also. Recipe is from a person in the Corporate Office of Hillerich & Bradsbury in Louisville, Kentucky

Vinegar Cake

6 egg whites, beaten
6 egg yolks, beaten
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 tsp vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour

Add sugar to the egg whites and beat. Add vinegar in yolks and beat well. Mix both together and add vanilla and flour and beat again. Put in greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes to 1 hour.