In 1947, Gourmet answered a reader’s query about vinegar pie with the explanation that “it might well have been a pioneer forerunner for that effete, dudish concoction, lemon meringue pie.” Others theorize that it was invented at a time when lemons weren’t so ubiquitous in grocery stores.
Either way, it’s been a popular topic in our pages. Between 1947 and 1963, we published five variations on vinegar pie, culminating with Mrs. Z.M. Crawford’s version, which she assured us was the “old, old recipe once used out on the plains when pie timber was scarce.”
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