A lot of friends have been posting on FB about what they are doing today to get ready for tomorrow.

My husband likes to cook and he and the kids made some pies. He made a pumpkin-cream cheese pie, a chocolate cream pie and an Oreo cream pie. He's going to make some pumpkin pies and some syrup pies.

Speaking of syrup pies. Has anyone else heard of this? It's like a pecan pie without the pecans. It's made with dark Karo syrup. It's VERY sweet. His Granny has always made them and it's a family tradition.

Cassie I am on the next plane.  Would love to know more about the syrup pies.  Pecan pie is my favorite and since no one else in my family eats them I don't make them.

My contributions to dinner (at our son's) are in the refrigerator waiting to be cooked (rolls and dressing), the grape salad is chilling as well as the jellied cranberry sauce.

Maybe DH will let me post the recipe or Syrup Pie. I'll ask him. I know that there is sugar, dark karo syrup, and shortening. My mom thought maybe it was a southern thing but his family isn't from the south. Of course it could be from the south anyway. No one I know has ever heard of it.

My ex-MIL used to make syrup pie like that. I'm not sure if she used dark Karo or sorghum.

For a few years when I was a kid there was a fad at the Tupperware parties and baby showers in our town to serve chess tarts. They were little pie crust tarts with a filling like that mixed with walnuts and raisins. So good!