How Transparent Pie Became the South’s Sweetest Secret

How Transparent Pie Became the South’s Sweetest Secret

This vintage custard pie is simple, sweet, and clearly delicious.Courtesy of Magee's Bakery & deSha's deSha’s restaurant preserved the original transparent pie recipe from Magee’s Bakery, which sold the dessert for nearly a century.Transparent pie doesn’t look like a dessert that should inspire devotion. It’s pale, modest, and smooth on top — no meringue spirals, no fruit glisten, no dramatic lattice. Yet in and around Maysville, Kentucky, trans…