Pie. Definition: A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients.
Pies are defined by their crusts. A filled pie (also single-crust or bottom-crust), has pastry lining the baking dish, and the filling is placed on top of the pastry, but left open. A top-crust pie, which may also be called a cobbler, has the filling in the bottom of the dish and the filling covered with a pastry or other covering before baking. A two-crust pie has the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Flaky pastry is a typical kind of pastry used for pie crusts, but many things can be used, including baking powder biscuits, mashed potatoes, and crumbs.
Pies can be a variety of sizes, ranging from bite-size to ones designed for multiple servings.
Types of pies
Main article: List of pies
Savory pies
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. Fillings for sweet or fruity are often mixed, such as strawberry rhubarb pie.
- Apple pie
- Pineapple pie
- Banoffee pie
- Blackberry pie
- Blueberry pie
- Buko pie
- Cherry pie
- Chess pie
- Cream pie
- Custard pie
- Fried pie
- Key lime pie
- Lemon meringue pie
- Mince pie
- Pecan pie
- Pumpkin pie
- Rhubarb pie
- Shoofly pie—a pie filled with molasses
- Strawberry pie
- Sugar pie
- Sweet potato pie
Oh and by the way, my favorite pie is chocolate pie filled with ice cream and has chocolate chip shavings on top with whip cream.
