Is there any of that pie left?

Friend Tim Evans writes in The Indianapolis Star that State Sen. Allen Paul, a Republican from Richmond, Ind., has proposed a resolution in the Indiana Legislature to declare the sugar cream pie to be the Official State Pie.

He also wants to designate Winchester, Ind., (which happens to be in his district and home to Wick's Pies Inc.) as the Sugar Cream Pie Capital.

Turns out there are two other states with official state pies - Vermont with apple (ho-hum), and Florida with Key Lime.

Sugar cream pie is an Indiana farm favorite and is also known as Hoosier sugar cream pie, Indiana cream pie, sugar pie, or finger pie. It's a pie shell spread with layers of creamed butter and maple or brown sugar with a sprinkling of flour, then filled with vanilla-flavored cream and baked.

Whatscookingamerica.net says:

The recipe appears to have originated in Indiana with the Shaker and/or Amish communities in the 1800s as a great pie recipe to use when the apple bins were empty. You will find somewhat similar pies in the Pennsylvania Dutch County and a few other places in the United States with significant Amish populations. The Shakers believed in eating hearty and healthy food. They definitely must have had a sweet tooth, though, judging by the sugar cream pie.

This pie was also know as finger pie because the filling was sometimes stirred with a finger during the baking process to prevent breaking the bottom crust. People used to skim the thick yellow cream from the top of chilled fresh milk to make this delectable dessert.

Allrecipes.com has six variations, the richest being 541 calories per slice. This is clearly not on a diabetic menu and it's guaranteed to spike your blood sugar bigtime.

Here's the recipe my wife favors: