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"Cherry pie" redirects here. For other uses, see Cherry pie (disambiguation)
Cherry pie (disambiguation)

A cherry pie is a pie made with cherry filling. The term may also refer to* Cherry Pie , an album by glam metal band Warrant** "Cherry Pie ", a song from the album of the same name...
.
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry
Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baking made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder or Egg s. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked goods are called "pastries"....
 dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet
Sweetness

Sweet is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasure experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are much sweeter, some of which have been used as sugar substitutes for those wi...
 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.






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"Cherry pie" redirects here. For other uses, see Cherry pie (disambiguation)
Cherry pie (disambiguation)

A cherry pie is a pie made with cherry filling. The term may also refer to* Cherry Pie , an album by glam metal band Warrant** "Cherry Pie ", a song from the album of the same name...
.
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry
Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baking made from ingredients such as flour, butter, shortening, baking powder or Egg s. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked goods are called "pastries"....
 dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet
Sweetness

Sweet is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasure experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are much sweeter, some of which have been used as sugar substitutes for those wi...
 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. Pies can be a variety of sizes, ranging from bite-size to ones designed for multiple servings.

Reference to “pyes” as food items appeared in England (in a Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 context) as early as the 12th Century, but no unequivocal reference to the item with which the article is concerned is attested in the Oxford English Dictionary until the 14th century (Oxford English Dictionary sb pie).

Regional variations

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Meat pies with fillings such as steak, cheese, steak and kidney
Steak and kidney pie

The steak and kidney pie is a typical British cuisine recipe with a filling of diced beef steak and beef , Domestic sheep's or pig's kidneys in a thick sauce....
, minced beef, or chicken
Chicken

The chicken is a Domestication fowl. Recent evidence suggests that domestication of the chicken was under way in Vietnam over 10,000 years ago....
 and mushroom
Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom is most often applied to those fungi that have a stem , a cap , and gills on the unde...
 are popular in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 and New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 as take-away snacks. They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips
Fish and chips

Fish and chips is a popular take-away food which originated in the United Kingdom. It consists of deep-fried fish in Batter or breadcrumbs with French fried potatoes potatoes....
 at British chip shops.

These meat pies contain beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flaky top. A peculiarity of Adelaide
Adelaide

Adelaide is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million....
 cuisine is the Pie floater
Pie floater

A pie floater is a meal served at pie carts in Adelaide, South Australia and elsewhere in South Australia. It was once more widely available in other parts of Australia but its popularity waned....
.

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
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
 as à la mode. Apple pie
Apple pie

An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples . It is sometimes served with whipped cream on top of it. Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a disk shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a to...
 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
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

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 Ben Turpin
Ben Turpin

Ben Turpin was a cross-eyed comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films....
 received one in Mr. Flip
Mr. Flip

Mr. Flip is a 1909 in film comedy film directed by Broncho Billy Anderson. This film is believed to have been the first instance of a comedian being hit in the face with a pie when Ben Turpin was struck....
 in 1909, and is often associated with clowns in popular culture. Pranksters have taken to targeting politicians and celebrities with their pies, an act called pieing
Pieing

Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at an authority figure, politician, or celebrity as a means of protesting against the target's political beliefs, or against a perceived flaw ? arrogance, hubris ? in the target's character....
. Activists sometimes engage in the pieing of political and social targets as well. One such group is the Biotic Baking Brigade
Biotic Baking Brigade

The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of left-wing politics Activism, famous for Pieing in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates, San Francisco mayors Willie Lewis Brown, Jr., and Gavin Newsom, anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps, economist Milton Friedman, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, former Canadian Prime Minister Je...
. "Pieing" can result in injury to the target and assault or more serious charges against the pie throwers.

Savoury pies

  • Bacon and egg pie
    Bacon and egg pie

    The bacon and egg pie contains bacon, egg and often onion. It can be eaten hot or cold.Some versions have a raising agent such as baking powder mixed into the egg to make a fluffier filling....
  • Butter pie
    Butter pie

    A butter pie is a traditional savoury pie originating from Lancashire in North West England. It contains sliced potatoes, onion, butter, salt and pepper in a light pastry casing....
  • Chicken and mushroom pie
    Chicken and mushroom pie

    Chicken and mushroom pie is a common Great Britain pie, often served in fish and chips restaurants. The outside is usually a full top and bottom crust, with the filling made up of small pieces of chicken and sliced mushrooms in a creamy sauce....
  • Chicken Pie
  • Corned beef pie
    Corned beef pie

    Corned beef pie is a United Kingdom pie containing corned beef, onion and often thinly sliced, cubed or mashed potato. It can be eaten hot or cold, making it a suitable common picnic food and also a 'winter warmer'....
  • Cottage pie (and Shepherds' pie)
  • Meat pie
    Meat pie

    File:Homemade meat pie.jpgFile:MeatPie.JPGFile:Cornish pasty.jpegA meat pie is a Umami pie with a filling of meat and other savoury ingredients....
  • Pasty
    Pasty

    A pasty , less commonly known as tiddly oggy or tiddy oggy, and sometimes as pastie in the United States, is a filled pastry case, commonly associated with Cornwall, United Kingdom....
  • Pizza pie
    Pizza

    Pizza is a world-popular dish of Italy origin, made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is often covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and mozzarella cheese....
  • Pork pie
    Pork pie

    Pork pies are a type of meat pie and are traditional United Kingdom food. They consist of roughly chopped pork and pork jelly sealed in a hot water crust pastry, and are normally eaten cold....
  • Pot pie
    Pot pie

    A pot pie is a type of baked savory pie with a bottom and top completely encased by flaky crusts and baked inside a pie tin to support its shape....
  • Quiche
    Quiche

    File:Quiches 2.jpgFile:Lorraine map.pngIn French cuisine, a quiche is a baked dish that is based on a custard made from Egg s and milk or cream in a pastry crust....
  • Scotch pie
    Scotch pie

    A Scotch pie is a small, double-crust meat pie filled with minced mutton or other meat. It may also be known as a shell pie or a mince pie to differentiate it from other varieties of savoury pie, such as the steak pie, steak-and-kidney pie, steak-and-tattie pie, and so forth....
  • Curry Pie
    Curry pie

    A curry pie is a pastry dish. It is a traditional pie filled with either Indian or Chinese curry.The curry pie is a popular Public house meal in the United Kingdom and can also be purchased frozen from Supermarkets and as a ready to eat meal from take-out....
  • Stargazy pie
    Stargazy pie

    Stargazy pie is a Cornwall, England dish made of baked pilchards and five other kinds of seafish, covered with a pastry crust. The pilchards are arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust around the edge, so that they appear to be gazing skyward....
  • Steak pie
    Steak pie

    A steak pie is a traditional meat pie served in UK. It is made from stewing steak and beef gravy, enclosed in a pastry shell. Sometimes mixed vegetables are included in the filling....
  • Steak and kidney pie
    Steak and kidney pie

    The steak and kidney pie is a typical British cuisine recipe with a filling of diced beef steak and beef , Domestic sheep's or pig's kidneys in a thick sauce....


Sweet pies

Some of these pies are pies in name only, such as the Boston cream pie, which is a cake
Cake

Cake is a form of food that is usually sweet and often Baking. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetener , a binding agent , fats , a liquid , flavoring and some form of leavening agent , though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise....
. Many fruit and berry pies are very similar, varying only the fruit used in filling.

  • Apple pie
    Apple pie

    An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples . It is sometimes served with whipped cream on top of it. Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a disk shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a to...
  • Banana cream pie
  • Banoffee pie
    Banoffee pie

    Banoffee pie is an England dessert made from bananas, cream and boiled condensed milk , either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter....
  • Blackberry pie
    Blackberry pie

    Blackberry pie is pie composed of blackberry filling, usually in the form of either blackberry jam, actual blackberries themselves, or some combination thereof....
  • Blueberry pie
  • Buko pie
    Buko pie

    Buko pie is a traditional Cuisine of the Philippines pastry style, young coconut-filled pie.It has proven to be a popular dish for Filipinos. It is almost like a coconut cream pie, only it is made with just young coconuts and has no cream....
  • Cheesecake
    Cheesecake

    Cheesecake is a large family of sweet, cheese-based tarts and cakes.Cheesecakes are generally made with soft, fresh cheeses. Other ingredients such as sugar, eggs, flour, and liquids are often mixed in as well....
  • Cherry pie
  • Chess pie
    Chess pie

    Chess pie is a dessert characteristic of Southern U.S. cuisine. Recipes vary, but are generally similar in that they call for the preparation of a single pie crust and a filling composed of Egg , butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla....
  • Cream pie
    Cream pie

    A cream pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, flour, and eggs. It can come in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, Lime , banana, coconut, and chocolate....
  • Custard pie
    Custard pie

    A custard pie is any type of uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and baked together. In North America, custard pie commonly refers to a plain mixture of milk, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and sometimes nutmeg combined with a pie crust....
  • Key lime pie
    Key Lime Pie

    Key Lime Pie is a 1989 album by Camper Van Beethoven, also known as CVB. It was the band's final album before breaking up in 1990, although the band has reunited and released new material in recent years....
  • Lemon meringue pie
    Lemon meringue pie

    Lemon meringue pie is a type of baked pie, usually served for dessert, made with a pastry base usually shortcrust or shortbread pastry, lemon curd filling and a fluffy meringue topping....
  • Mince pie
    Mince pie

    A mince pie is a United Kingdom festive sweet pastry, traditionally consumed during the Christmas and New Year period. Mince pies normally have a pastry top, but versions may also be found without the top in which case they are known as mince tarts....
  • Peach pie
  • Pecan pie
    Pecan pie

    Pecan pie is a sweet custard pie made primarily of corn syrup and pecan nuts. It is popularly served at holiday meals and is also considered a specialty of Southern U.S....
  • Pumpkin pie
    Pumpkin pie

    Pumpkin pie is a traditional North American sweet dessert usually made in the fall and early winter, especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas....
  • Rhubarb pie
    Rhubarb pie

    Rhubarb pie is a pie that is particularly popular in those areas where the rhubarb plant is commonly cultivated, including the British Isles and the New England region of the United States....
  • Shoofly pie
    Shoofly pie

    Shoofly pie is a molasses pie considered traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch and also known in Cuisine of the Southern United States.The term "shoo-fly pie" first appeared in print in 1926....
     - a pie filled with molasses
    Molasses

    Molasses is a thick by-product from the processing of the sugar beet or sugar cane into sugar. The word molasses comes from the Portuguese language word mela?o, which comes from "meli", the Greek word for "honey"....
  • Strawberry pie
    Strawberry pie

    Strawberry pie is a dessert food consisting mainly of strawberries, sugar, a pie crust, and sometimes gelatin. About 70% of the pie by weight is strawberries....
  • Sugar pie
    Sugar pie

    Sugar pie is a typical dessert of the northern European countries of France and Belgium, Quebec, and Midwestern United States U.S. state such as Indiana, where it is known as sugar cream pie ....
  • Sweet potato pie
    Sweet potato pie

    Sweet potato pie is a traditional side dish or dessert in the Southern United States. It is often served during the American holiday season, especially at Thanksgiving, and is similar in many ways to pumpkin pie....


See also

  • Pirog
    Pyrih

    Pyrih is a Ukrainian cuisine pie that can have either a sweet or savoury filling. In Russian cuisine and Belarusian cuisine it is called pirog ....


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