Cream, butter, and sugar are the essential ingredients of sugar pie, also known as sugar cream pie as well as Indiana farm pie because most of it is made and eaten in the Hoosier State. A favorite of the Amish who settled Indiana as well as Ohio, it is a product of scarcity: No fruits are required and even eggs are not needed (although sometimes they may be added) to create the characteristic fragile jiggle by which the pie is known. Farmland bec fins are said to like sugar pie best in the spring when Jersey cows are on new, green grass and their milk is especially rich. Brown sugar or maple syrup frequently is used, vanilla extract will flavor it, and a dusting of nutmeg is common, but any further customization goes against the pie’s elemental nature.