I have been looking for sugar cream pie since my grandmother passed away. I try, and it never…read morecomes out right. Sweetie came close, and my cousin can make great ones, but I need it more often than just at holidays. You can't find it at restaurants. Oh, you can find the brown sugar version, but we're talking REAL sugar cream pie, with just sugar, cream, and a little nutmeg on top.
This lady does that. Place your order, pull up to her house on a gravel road not quite in the middle of nowhere, and there is pie. For $10 (I think it was on special, normally $12?) you get a real, home-made sugar cream pie. Great crust. Filling that is a cross between pudding and custard in texture, and subtly sweet.
Is it as good as grandma's? Close. I'm biased, of course, and we ate the whole thing in a day, so no real complaints. But differences: a little coconut flavor, which must be a local variation? Crust was not quite the same. But on its own, as a pie, as a sugar cream pie, very good.
We heard of her on PBS, and had to come by as soon as we were up this way. We will be back. I saw variations like chocolate sugar cream, and she makes many other pies, cookies, cinnamon rolls, etc. Well worth a detour!