This is an awesome early spring dessert and uses 3/4 cup honey, you can use store bought but I highly recommend going to your local honey purveyors and finding out what sort of variety is available in your area. For example, a buckwheat honey is dark brown in color, thick in consistency and tastes similar to molasses. No matter what honey you use, know that this pie is very, very, sweet and basically a sugar pie or heavy custard. You can use your own butter crust recipe for the shell. I like to garnish with great big hand harvested salt flakes.
Preheat 350°
Ingredients:
- Butter, 1/2 cup, melted
- White Sugar, 3/4 cup
- White Cornmeal, 2 tbs.
- Salt, 1/4 tsp
- Honey, 3/4 cup
- Eggs, 3 large
- Heavy Cream, 1/2 cup
- White Vinegar, 2 tsp
- Vanilla Paste, 1 tsp
- Maldon or Hand Harvested Salt Flakes for garnish
- Using a mixer, combine Sugar, Salt, Cornmeal and butter to make paste.
- Add honey, Vanilla Paste and Vinegar – mix
- Fold in eggs and blend in cream
- Pour into shell
- Bake 45-60 minutes
- Chill in refrigerator 1 hour