{"id":3273,"slug":"sunglow-motel-cafe-pickle-pie","title":"Sunglow Motel-Cafe Pickle Pie","description":"The Sunglow Motel-Cafe in Bicknell, Utah serves the unique pickle pie, developed by Cula Ekker. This is their recipe, as it appeared in a Salt Lake Tribune article that is framed and hangs on the cafe's wall.","ingredients_raw":["5 eggs","2 cups white granulated sugar","1 tsp cinnamon","1 tsp nutmeg","1 tsp lemon extract","2 tbsp cornstarch","1 cup + 2 tbsp light cream","⅛ cup margarine, melted","12 oz sweet pickles, drained and ground","2 unbaked 9-inch pie shells"],"ingredients_norm":["egg","white granulated sugar","cinnamon","nutmeg","lemon extract","cornstarch","+ tbsp light cream","margarine","sweet pickle","unbaked inch pie shell"],"steps":["Beat eggs and sugar until lemon-colored and thick; beat in cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon extract, cornstarch, cream and margarine.","Stir ground sweet pickles into mixture.","Pour pickle mixture into unbaked pie shells.","Bake at 350°F for 1–1.25 hours, until a knife inserted in center comes out clean."],"categories":["Pie and tart recipes","Dessert recipes","Recipes using cucumber pickles","Recipes for pies and tarts","Baking recipes","Recipes using egg","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using ground cinnamon","Recipes using cornstarch","Recipes using light cream","Recipes using nutmeg","Recipes using margarine"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":"2 pies","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Sunglow_Motel-Cafe_Pickle_Pie","source_ref":"4517293","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Sunglow_Motel-Cafe_Pickle_Pie&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"34c58ed70c9ebd69aa1fd3292dce80a61f769d55095d77a60509545ee107900a","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:25Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/sunglow-motel-cafe-pickle-pie"}