Olivia's Buttermilk Pie

My tab at the top of my browser has the recipe page cut off so that it says "Olivia's Butt". *immature giggle* Anyway. I was half listening/watching the food network and I decided on a whim to go to the page of recipes from the episode of one of Paula Deen's shows that was currently airing. I found this recipe. It sounded good. I had all the ingredients. In fact, I have had a lonely box of Bisquick sitting in the pantry since the LAST Paula Deen recipe.

It had to be made.

Bisquick, (soon to be melted) butter, sugar, 3 eggs, vanilla, and one cup of buttermilk.

Now, I don't keep buttermilk in my fridge because I'd never use it. But Ree has a trick and it worked really well. You measure out just under how much milk you need and then add a tablespoon of white vinegar. Stir it around and in moments you have buttermilk. Thanks, Ree!

Anyway, add everything into a bowl. Your biscuit mix, sugar, eggs, vanilla..

And your melted butter and buttermilk.

Then, using an electric mixer, blend it all for 30 seconds to a minute.

Take your greased pie plate..

And pour it in!

This is complex, I know.

Then bake it for about 50 minutes or so at 350 degrees.

What you get is a nice kind of chewy biscuity crust that's so soft and melts into a softer more custardy bottom. That isn't even a great description. It was really good.

It was good the next day but it was definitely best the first day, before it had time to sit. Especially right out of the oven!

Olivia's Buttermilk Pie (original recipe from here)

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup biscuit mix (recommended: Bisquick)
• 1/3 cup (5 1/3 tablespoons) butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  
• 3 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch pie pan.

Put all ingredients in a bowl and blend for 1 minute with a handheld electric mixer. Pour mixture into prepared pan. Bake for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool for 5 minutes.
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Oh, and as for the 1 and a half cups of sugar.. in the reviews, people complained that it was really sweet, so I ended up only using one heaping cup of sugar. And it was pleeeeeeenty sweet. Keep that in mind for your own baking.