Flapper pie

Flapper pie! As always, I’m late to the party – I’ve made two of these in two days, and only managed to eat a slice this afternoon. I’m a sucker for recipes with unusual names, particularly Canadian ones and anything that has to do with pie – if you haven’t heard of it, flapper pie is a prairie thing, although no one can say whether or not it was invented here. It’s a graham crust filled with vanilla custard and topped with meringue, and was popular in the prairies because its ingredients…

Classic Canadian Prairie fare, the Flapper pie! My Grandma's recipe is the best I've found for this amazing pie!

Seriously, you have to try it!

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A true prairie favorite, flapper pie is made with a graham cracker crust and topped with a custard layer and finally a fluffy meringue topping, and it was especially popular a few decades back - but it's still delicious today!

Flapper Pie is simply a cooked vanilla custard in a graham crust and topped with meringue. It's best eaten fresh the day it's made. I find that using a good quality pure vanilla makes a big difference in the taste of this pie. Yields one deep dish pie. Crust: 1/3 cup melted butter 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/8 cup white sugar Melt butter and stir in crumbs and sugar. Press mixture into a pie plate and bake in 350ºF oven for 8-10 minutes. Filling: 4 cups milk 4 eggs yolks (save whites…

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Chocolate Flapper Pie, the delicious version of the classic Canadian custard meringue prairie pie with a chocolate filling instead!

Flapper Pie is a prairie favourite, despite recently garnering the term “forgotten” by food media across Canada. This simple creamy pie grew in popularity throughout the 1920s and 1930s and has remained in the hearts of families in Alberta, Saskatchewan and beyond.

This light and fluffy concoction of custard on a graham cracker crust with a meringue topping is a Canadian Prairie classic