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A slice cut from an apple pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients. An apple pie is a fruit Pie (or Tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples (Cooking Apples This article describes Pastry in food For the Distributed Hash Table system see Pastry_(DHT. The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context and the term is not synonymous in Food preparation and Biology. In modern English usage meat most often refers to Animal tissue used as food mostly Skeletal muscle and associated Fat, but it may also refer Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two The term " vegetable " generally means the edible parts of Plants The definition of the word is traditional rather than Scientific, however Cheese is a Food made from Milk, usually the milk of cows, Buffalo, Goats or sheep, by coagulation. For the 1993 hip-hop single by the Wu-Tang Clan see CREAM CREAM is an acronym for Cognitive Reliability Error Analysis Method a Chocolate ( pronounced or /-ˈələt/ comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical Cacao tree Custard is a range of preparations based on Milk and eggs thickened with heat Nut is a general term for the large dry oily Seeds or Fruit of some Plants. Sweet is one of the five Basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience 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.

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. The steak and kidney pie is a typical British dish with a filling of diced Beef Steak and beef (ox lamb 's or Pig Ground beef, beef mince or hamburger meat (in North America) or mince or mince(d meat (in the rest of the English speaking The chicken ( Gallus gallus, sometimes G gallus domesticus) is a domesticated Fowl which is traditionally believed to have descended from A mushroom is the fleshy Spore -bearing Fruiting body of a Fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops. French fries ( North American English; sometimes not capitalized chips ( British English) fries or French-fried potatoes (formal Fish and chips (sometimes written " fish ’n’ chips " is a popular Take-away food originating from the United Kingdom. The combination of pie and mash is traditionally associated with London. Pie and mash is a traditional London Working class food Pie mash and stewed eels shops have been in London since the 18th century and are still common in south and London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Shepherd's pie (which does not involve pastry) is also a favourite amongst people throughout Britain. Cottage pie is a traditional English dish made with minced meat covered with a Mashed potato crust

These meat pies contain beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flakey top. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater. Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a A pie floater is a meal served at pie carts in Adelaide and elsewhere in South Australia.

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). A pot pie is a type of baked savory Pie with a bottom and top completely encased by flakey crusts and baked inside a pie tin to support its shape 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. An apple pie is a fruit Pie (or Tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples (Cooking Apples This combination, and possibly the name as well, is thought to have been popularized in the mid-1890s in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1]

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. Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by their Grotesque appearance colored wigs stylistic makeup, outlandish Costumes unusually Pranksters have taken to targeting politicians and celebrities with their pies, an act called pieing. Pieing is the act of throwing a Pie at someone Originally a staple of Slapstick comedy, pieing has also come to be used for political purposes in which throwing Activists sometimes engage in the pieing of political and social targets as well. One such group is the Biotic Baking Brigade. The Biotic Baking Brigade is a loosely connected group of left-wing activists, famous for throwing pies in the faces of such figures as Bill Gates "Pieing" can result in injury to the target and assault or more serious charges against the pie throwers. ^[2]

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

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

A chicken pie with a traditional pie bird

Sweet pies

Some of these pies are pies in name only, such as the Boston cream pie, which is a cake. The bacon and egg pie contains Bacon, egg and often Onion. It can be eaten hot or cold A butter pie is a savoury pie originating from Lancashire in North West England. Chicken and mushroom pie is a common British pie often served in Fish and chips restaurants Corned beef pie is a British Pie.It contains Corned beef, Onion and often thinly sliced or cubed Potato. Cottage pie is a traditional English dish made with minced meat covered with a Mashed potato crust Kalakukko is a traditional food from the Finnish region of Savonia made from fish baked inside a loaf of bread A meat pie is a savoury Pie with a filling of Meat and other savoury ingredients A meat pie is a savoury Pie with a filling of Meat and other savoury ingredients A pasty ( Cornish: Pasti, ˈpæsti (the 'a' pronounced as in 'cat' or less commonly pastie, Tiddy Oggy, is a filled Pastry Pizza (ˈpiːtsə, in Italian:) is a popular dish made with an Oven -baked flat generally round Bread that is covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based Pork pies are a type of Meat pie and are traditional British food A pot pie is a type of baked savory Pie with a bottom and top completely encased by flakey crusts and baked inside a pie tin to support its shape In French cuisine, a quiche (IPA) is a baked dish that is made primarily of eggs and Milk or Cream in a Pastry A Scotch pie is a small double-crust Meat pie filled with minced Mutton or other meat Cottage pie is a traditional English dish made with minced meat covered with a Mashed potato crust Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked Pilchards and five other kinds of Seafish, covered with a Pastry crust A steak pie is a traditional Meat pie served in Britain. It is made from stewing Steak and beef Gravy, enclosed in a Pastry shell The steak and kidney pie is a typical British dish with a filling of diced Beef Steak and beef (ox lamb 's or Pig A pie bird, pie vent, pie whistle, pie funnel, or pie chimney is a hollow ceramic device traditionally from Europe and shaped like a bird Cake is a form of Food that is usually sweet and often baked. 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 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

A homemade cherry pie with a lattice top

References

External links

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