A few weeks ago, I took my mom to meet an aunt I hadn’t seen since I was a young child. She was going to be within an hour of my home so we planned to drive over. She wanted to meet up for coffee and pie! I must admit that I was saddened that the restaurant did not have pie at all! Gone are the days of the local diner with corner jukebox and vast array of pies…Pecan, Coconut cream, Lemon Meringue, Cherry, and Apple served ala mode or with thick slabs of cheddar.
Meeting for coffee and pie was a “thing” when I was growing up. It’s how people got together for a visit. If there were kids, we’d get our own booth where we could visit without disturbing the adults, otherwise you sat quietly, bored and listened. In those days, children were to be seen and not heard, but if you were good at it, you’d sure get an ear full of gossip, a helping of adult humor, the news around town and a stroll down memory lane.
In those days, people didn’t rush. It was a simpler time and people took their time with one another. A meeting like this could easily last a couple hours. Many of the woes of the world were solved, laughter shared, friendships and memories made, all served up with a steamy cup and a fat slice of pie.
Dixie Pie (Bourbon Pecan with Chocolate Chips)
1 9-inch pie crust (store-bought or homemade)
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
½ cup butter (1 stick)
4 large eggs, beaten
¼ cup bourbon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon salt
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (approximately 1 cup)
1 cup chopped pecans
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line a deep dish pie plate with the pie crust, set aside.
Combine sugar, corn syrup and butter in a saucepan. Stirring constantly, cook over medium heat until butter melts and sugar completely dissolves. Remove from heat and cool slightly.
In a large bowl, combine egg, bourbon, vanilla and salt. Mix thoroughly. Very slowly pour cooled sugar mixture into egg mixture, whisking constantly so that the heat from the sugar mixture doesn’t cook the egg mixture. Add the chocolate chips and pecans and stir to mix well.
Pour mixture into pie shell. Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until set and golden on top.
Serve warm with vanilla bean Ice cream or chilled with whipped cream.
Buttermilk Pie
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 stick butter softened
2 eggs
1/3 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
pinch salt
1 unbaked regular 9 inch pie shell
Coconut Cream pie

When I saw the title of this post mention coffee and pie, I just had to drop in. You are right about how these two elements bring people together in a special way. Just so you know Laura, coconut cream is one of my most favorite pies.
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Omgoodness! That’s one of my favorites to make homemade & was my children’s very favorite growing up. 😊
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I sure do miss those days of coffee and pie! Such simpler times they were! 💜 Happy Thanksgiving!
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Me too! Thank you so much, Renee! Happy Thanksgiving to you & yours💕
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You are welcome, Laura! 🙂💜
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French pressed coffee and pie! Yes.
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Yum right?
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Sounds and looks scrumptious
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all 3 looks yummy…but considering I just started my gym program and diet – bye bye cakes haha
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Hahaha we’re preemptive dieting, that way I’ll only gain back instead of more then after Thanksgiving, back to it for christmas. I’m either crazy or a genious, IDK. Keep you posted on that. Lol
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😭😂 diet now – & eat till you drop later 🙂 that’s our motto 😅
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Oh my, oh my, oh my.
I don’t consider myself a pie person – make mine cake please – but I could definitely hoover down one of those slices of pie right now. ok … honestly, I could probably hoover all 3. Yum.
thanks for including the recipes. My husband is a big-time pie person and pecan is one of his favourites. I can hardly wait to try this one on for size. Bourbon says it all 🙂
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OH Man! You have my mouth watering now!! Yes, bring back the slower times!
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I’m reminded of how when I was a little girl my mother and I would meet my grandmother at the Big Boy in the very way you described. Pie and coffee (and probably milk for me). It was a time for my mom to catch up with her mom but it’s a memory I still carry with me.
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Hahaha We had many of those meetings at Kips Big Boys just up the road from our house too! I hadn’t thought of Big Boys in years!
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Oh my, these look good. Can’t remember the last time I had pie. My mother always had a fresh-baked pie ready, and I clearly remember going for dinner to an aunt’s who made homemade raspberry pie which was my favourite.
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My great grandmother was just like that! She always had a cherry pie waiting for me! 😊
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Oh gosh! I think I just lost half a pound in “drool”! I have a few “crustless” pie recipes that are really good–for folks (myself) who prefer the filling and think crust is just an extra plate (or too much work) 🙂 Question: do you think I could substitute rum for the bourbon? I don’t drink alcohol, and just bought a bottle of rum I won’t use up in fruitcakes. Thanks mucho for the recipes ❤
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Oh absolutely! I think rum would be a delicious substitution! The crustless pie sounds very interesting! Please keep in touch and let me know how it turns out! Gosh! You have me thinking of baking rum cakes now! Lol
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Thanks so much for your input–I will try it sometime during the holidays and report back to you! 🙂
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[…] What’s Inside […]
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It’s an English thing too! There’s a saying, apple pie without cheese, is like a lass without a squeeze!
I’d recommend Wensleydale or a moderately sharp cheddar 😊
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I think it sounds heavenly!
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It’s really good! It’s traditional in Yorkshire to eat cheese with christmas cake too. English style fruitcake which is absolutely nothing like US fruitcake!
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Thank God! These are given to those you despise to use as door stops. Fruit cakes here 🤮 ecl!
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You need to try mine. If for no other reason because it’s utterly loaded with hooch 😂
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Well we’re talking! Yes!
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Well, now I’m hungry!
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Hahaha
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Wow…they look so ridiculously yummy! I love pecan pie…I will try your recipe.
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Awesome post!!! I also gained a couple pounds reading it… 😊
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Hahaha Thank you so much! I had mentioned Dixie Pie in an earlier post and was asked about the recipe and promised I’d share it.
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Keep them coming please!
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Did you really have a slab of cheese with pie? That is so weird. Pie with ice cream or cream you betcha 🙂
Yes being seen and not heard was a good way to get the gossip, both around town and family
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I’ve heard of it, even seen it but never tried it myself, as in the south, that would be a yankee thing! Because it was always offered and I’ve seen folks eat it, I thought I’d trace the history of that combination. Here’s what I found via Southern Living Magazine…
Food historians have offered many different explanations of how these two foods were brought together in the first place. In ancient times, cheese was often served with fruit and nuts at the end of meals to aid with digestion. The cheese-apple pie connection is often traced back to England, which is the birthplace of Cheddar and the apple pie. Back in the 17th and 18th century, English pies were often topped with a dairy-based sauce, such as custard. Somehow along the way, Cheddar stepped in for the sauce and the rest was history. And still found on menus and dining tables across the Northeast and Midwest.
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Well there you go. Custard on pies……….drool
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