Greetings Pie lovers! Welcome to a special midweek edition of Retro Food For Modern Foods. Today we are celebrating that best of best days of the year – Pieathalon Day. This is the day, where lead by the lovely Yinzerella, bloggers worldwide swap and cook vintage pie recipes.
This year I got a recipe for Lime Pie with Creme de Menthe sent to me by Dr Bobb. Now, call me biased but how pretty are these? I made lots of little pies because I could not find a large already baked pie crust and at the time I made these I was suffering from double ear infections and a bad back so I was not really up for shopping about. The one shop I went to had no large pie crusts so I bought two packs of medium. I’m kind of glad. I think the little pies look adorable.
Lime Pie with Creme de Menthe?
To be honest, though, I was not initially enamoured with the recipe. Lime yes! It was the Creme de Menthe I was struggling with. I have never really tasted Creme de Menthe, all I knew about it was that it was a mint-flavoured liqueur that Poirot sometimes sips. Hmm…I wonder if that is why Yinzerella sent it to me! I have a love/hate relationship with mint-flavoured things. I hate mint tea and mint choc chip ice cream but I love a mint slice biscuit and I love the combo of mint and lime in a mojito.
Looking at the bottle of Creme de Menthe though I couldn’t help feeling I was going to be flavouring my pies with something that looked suspiciously like the mouthwash I use!
I had to keep reminding myself Mojito, not Listerine!
Mojito! Mojito…And given that I always like to have a song to celebrate Pieathalon, I was singing that “Mojito, mojito” to the tune of the bit in Despacito that goes “Pasito a pasito, suave suavecito”.
(How many of you are not humming despacito now?
However the real sticking point was not the Creme de Menthe but came when I was half way through making the recipe. At the exact point when I realised that the original recipe contained egg yolks that were not going to be cooked.
Hard no for me on the raw yolks.
Not the least of which was that I now had 12 little pies. These were going to last us for days. And if the idea of fresh raw yolks was bad, the idea of 4 day old raw yolks was putrid. Plus the mixture was quite runny. I was sure if I left it uncooked, we would have soggy bottoms in no time. And as anyone who watches the Great British Bake Off will know, no one likes a soggy bottom!
So, I popped my little pies into the oven for about 15 minutes.
Despite my misgivings, these pies were delicious!
Lime Pie with Creme De Menthe – The Recipe
Doctor Bobb, I raise my glass to you and your recipe!
Why not check out what Dr Bobb and all the other pieathletes made per the links below:
(please note some of the links may not be live at the time of posting. I will update as they become live).
| Yinzerella | Candy Apple Cheese Pie | www.dinnerisserved1972.com |
| Dr. Bobb | praline pumpkin pie | http://dbkitschen.blogspot.com/2022/09/pieathalon-9-praline-pumpkin-pie.html |
| Battenburgbelle | Zucchini Pie | https://www.kitchenconfidence.co.uk/all-recipes/pieathalon-2022/ |
| S S | Yul Brenner’s Pie | http://abookofcookrye.blogspot.com/2022/09/pieathlon-ninth-walnut-pie-from-stars.html |
| Jenny | Sagittarius Hamburger Pie | www.silverscreensuppers.com |
| Surly | poohs summer pie | www.vintagerecipecards.com |
| Kari | Ham Tongue Pie | www.thenostalgiccook.com |
| Poppy Crocker | apricot mallow pie | https://granniepantries.blogspot.com/ |
| Camilla | Chocolate Angel Pie | http://culinary-adventures-with-cam.blogspot.com/ |
If you are wondering who got the pie I submitted, it was Jenny from Silver Screen Suppers! Good luck Jenny, I hope you enjoyed your hamburger pie!
Thanks as always to Yinzerella for organising this brilliant event!
12 Comments on Lime Pie with Creme De Menthe – Pieathalon 9!
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I can’t believe that pie’s not supposed to be baked! Given how they look after you baked them, that’s got to be a typing error in the recipe.
Also, lime and mint work together? We’re going to have to have a go at this in my kitchen because now you’ve got me intrigued.
I thought it might be an error – the pre baking mix was so runny! I’d love to know your thoughts if you make them!
These are absolutely beautiful. And a well-played modification with those yolks.
I hope you feel better!
Thanks Yinzerella! xx
Those are definitely cute!
Thank you! xx
I am fairly certain that I have never sipped creme de menthe.I loved all your adaptations to the pie. After reading several of these recipes, I think that era had a very different view of “good pies.”
Hi Camilla, I took al ittle nip of the creme de menthe before adding to the pie. It tastes very much like an alcoholic mouth wash! xx
Your little baby pies are adorable! Having tried creme de menthe, I’m having a hard time imagine that flavor combined with lime, but it sounds like it worked great.
Thanks Kari, I was very pleasantly surprised with the flavour of these too! xx
Taryn! The Saggitarius Pie was GOOD! I can tell you though, I am soooooo pleased I didn’t get this one. Creme de menthe? BLEUGH. I hope you didn’t have to buy an enormous bottle of it? Mind you, I’m guessing there are quite a few vintage cocktails knocking around that might use it as an ingredient? Hope your back is on the mend and that your lug holes are better too! xx
Thanks Jenny, I’m glad you enjoyed it!!! I’m hoping I can find a use for the rest of the creme de menthe! xx