WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
chess′ pie′, [Southern Cookery.]
  1. Fooda dessert of cornmeal, sugar, butter, egg yolks, milk, and flavorings baked in a pastry shell.
  • 1930–35; apparently for chest pie; chest perh. alluding to its depth


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