Pies and Pastries

Hyacinth R. Recasa
 Pie
A pie is a baked dish which is
usually made of a
pastry dough casing that
contains a filling of various
sweet or savoury ingredients.
Sweet pies may be filled with
fruit, nuts, brown
sugar, sweetened vegetables,
or with thicker fillings based
on eggs and dairy.
History of Pie
Pie has been around since
the ancient Egyptians. The
first pies were made by early
Romans who may have
learned about it through the
Greeks. These pies were
sometimes made in
"reeds" which were used for
the sole purpose of holding
the filling and not for eating
with the filling.
 Types of Pie
Cream Pie
is a type of pie filled with a
rich custard or pudding that
is made from milk, cream,
sugar, wheat flour, and eggs.
It comes in many
forms, including vanilla,
lemon, lime, peanut butter,
banana, coconut,
and chocolate. One feature of
most cream pies is a
whipped cream topping.
 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.
 Savory Pie

Savoury pies are non-sweet,

“salty rather than sweet” pies
served as meals or snacks,
rather than as a dessert.
 Fruit Pie
A pie with a whole or sliced
fruits that combined with
sugar and a starch thickener.
 Crumb Crust Pie

 is comprised of pre-existing 

food items, such as cookies
or cracker-like entities (nuts
are welcome too), made into
crumbs, tossed/coated with
melted fat (typically butter),
and pressed into your pie pan
to form a shell. 
 Double Crust Pie
A pie made with both a bottom
and a top crust. The first crust
used for the Double Crust Pie is
the bottom crust which is rolled
out and placed in the pie plate. A
filling is prepared and placed
in the pie plate over the surface of
the bottom crust. The top crust is
then rolled out and placed over the
top of the filling. The top crust has
several slits made into the crust or
a few small holes punctured into
the crust with a fork to allow
steam to escape as the pie is baked.
 Tart
A tart is a baked
dish consisting of a filling over
a pastry base with an open
top not covered with pastry. 
The pastry is usually shortcrust
pastry; the filling may be sweet
or savoury, though modern 
tarts are usually fruit based, 
sometimes with custard.
 Example of Pies
Apple Pie Cherry Pie
Coconut Cream Pie Pecan Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie Sugar Cream Pie
Peach Pie Sweet Potato Pie
Strawberry Pie Blackberry Pie
Blueberry Pie Mixed Berry Pie