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).

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!