Pie

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A Pie is a type of food. Pies are usually baked, and often made in the shape of a circle or an oval. On the outside of a pie there is a sweet or savory crust, and on the inside there is a filling. Pies can be filled with sweet fruit filling, meat, or vegetables. Pie is great for desserts because of its delicious sweetness.

A pot pie is a pie baked in a pot.

Contents 1 Types of pie 1.1 Savory 1.2 Sweet 1.3 Other 2 Regional variations 3 Pie throwing 4 Savoury pies 5 Sweet pies 6 Other websites 7 References

[change] Types of pie

[change] Savory

• Chicken pot pie is a kind of savory pie. It is baked in a pot. It is made with Chicken, Vegetables and gravy.
• Meat and Potato Pie is a type of savory pie made with meat (usually beef) and potatoes

[change] Sweet

• Apple pie
• Cherry pie
• Mississippi Mud pie
• Pumpkin pie
• Rhubarb pie.
• Chocolate pie is a type of sweet pie made with a chocolate custard.

[change] Other

• Mud pie (A mud pie is not usually eaten, unless it is the candy kind)

A pie is an English baked food, with a baked shell usually made of pastry dough that covers or completely contains a filling of fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies can be either "filled", where a dish is covered by pastry and the filling is placed on top of that, "top-crust," where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking, or "two-crust," with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell.

[change] Regional variations

Meat pies with fillings such as steak and cheese, steak and kidney, minced beef or chicken and mushroom are popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand as take-away snacks. They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops. The residents of Wigan are so renowned for their preference for this food-stuff that they are often referred to as "Pie Eaters"^{[needs proving]} (though the historical reasons for this title are disputed). In honour of this, the main ingredient of a 'Wigan kebab' is the pie, which is placed in a barm cake to make up the popular local delicacy. The combination of pie and mash is traditionally associated with London. Shepherd's pie (which does not involve pastry) is also a favourite amongst people throughout Britain.

In contrast to other meat pies which are served hot, Pork Pies generally have a very high fat content and are always served cold.^{[needs proving]}

These meat pies contain beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flakey top. Many bakeries and specialty stores sell gourmet pies for the more discriminating customer. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine in the Pie floater.

Pot pies with a flaky crust and bottom are also a popular American dish, typically with a filling of meat (particularly beef, chicken or turkey), gravy, and mixed vegetables (potatoes, carrots and peas). Frozen pot pies are often sold in individual serving size.

Fruit pies may be served with a scoop of ice cream, a style known in North America as à la mode. Apple pie is a traditional choice, though any pie with sweet fillings may be served à la mode. This combination, and possibly the name as well, is thought to have been popularized in the mid-1890s in the United States.^[1]

[change] Pie throwing

Cream filled or topped pies are favourite props for humour, particularly when aimed at the pompous. Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since the early days of the medium, and is often associated with clowns in popular culture. Pranksters have taken to targeting politicians and celebrities with their pies, an act called pieing. Activists sometimes engage in the pieing of political and social targets as well. One such group is the Biotic Baking Brigade. "Pieing" can result in injury to the target and assault or more serious charges against the pie throwers. ^[2]

[change] Savoury pies

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• Bacon and egg pie
• Butter pie
• Chicken and mushroom pie
• Corned beef pie
• Cottage pie
• Kalakukko

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• Meat pie
• Meat and potato pie
• Pasty
• Pizza pie
• Pork pie
• Pot pie

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• Quiche
• Scotch pie
• Shepherds' pie (mashed potato crust)
• Stargazy pie
• Steak pie
• Steak and kidney pie

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[change] Sweet pies

Some of these pies are pies in name only, such as the Boston cream pie, which is a cake. Many fruit and berry pies are very similar, varying only the fruit used in filling.

Apple pie Banoffee pie Banana cream pie Blackberry pie Blueberry pie Boston cream pie Buko pie Cheesecake Cherry pie

Chess pie Cream pie Custard pie Dutch apple pie Key lime pie Lemon meringue pie Mince pie Mock apple pie

Peach pie Pecan pie Peanut butter pie Pumpkin pie Rhubarb pie, Strawberry-rhubarb pie Shoofly pie - a pie filled with molasses Strawberry pie Sugar pie Sweet Potato Pie

Image:Cherry pie.jpg A homemade cherry pie with a lattice top

[change] Other websites

• The American Pie Council
• History of Pie
• Food Timeline, History Notes: Pie & Pastry

[change] References