The Country Dove Gifts and Tea Room along Route 66 in Elk City, Okla., is known far and wide for its French silk pie. The Daily Oklahoman went there to investigate.
The owners did reveal a few things about the pie:
“The French silk pie recipe is from a cookbook, I think it was originally from an Arkansas tearoom,” said Kay Farmer, co-owner of the Country Dove. “My mother-in-law adapted the pie recipe for us. She came up with the nut crust,” she said.
When Farmer and her partner, Glenna Hollis, opened the Country Dove in 1988, Farmer had never baked a pie in her life. Today, she is constantly making piecrusts to fill to meet the customer demand.
But don’t expect the Country Dove to fulfill requests for the recipe. They are keeping it to themselves — at least while the restaurant remains open.
That’s the worst-kept secret on 66. The recipe is in Hogs on 66. The filling is basically the same recipe you find on the Cool Whip container, except you leave out the Cool Whip part, which makes for a richer, denser filling.
The book includes the recipe for the nut crust, which I haven’t tried yet because I am hopelessly lazy.