Pie

This article is about the baked good. For the mathematical constant, see Pi. For other uses, see Pie (disambiguation).

A slice cut from an apple pie

A pie is a 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. Some pies have only a bottom crust, generally if they have a sweet filling that does not require cooking. These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets. An example of a bottom-crust-only pie that is savoury rather than sweet is a quiche. Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with the crust underneath. Blind-baking is used to develop a crust's crispiness, and keep it from becoming soggy under the burden of a very liquid filling. If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosen filling, it may also be blind-baked before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated. Pie fillings range in size from tiny bite-size party pies or small tartlets, to single-serve pies (e.g. a pasty) and larger pies baked in a dish and eaten by the slice. The type of pastry used depends on the filling. It may be either a butter-rich flaky or puff pastry, a sturdy shortcrust pastry, or, in the case of savoury pies, a hot water crust pastry.

Occasionally the term pie is used to refer to otherwise unrelated confections containing a sweet or savoury filling, such as Eskimo pie or moon pie. Pie can also refer to cow dung.

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Savoury pies

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

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

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

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A chicken pie featuring the traditional English blackbird

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
• 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

A homemade cherry pie with a lattice top

See also

• Cake
• Pastry
• Dessert
• Quiche
• Wikibooks Cookbook article on Flaky Pie Crust

External links

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