The criteria for what is and is not considered a pie is generally pretty loose. If you've got a pie crust and something to fill that pie crust with, you've more likely than not got a pie. Sure you could use more traditional ingredients like fruit or pumpkin if you wanted to be boring, but why would you do that when something called a Coca-Cola pie exists? Does that not sound, at the very least, exciting? Wouldn't you like something new in your life, and wouldn't you like it in the shape of a pie? Think of things that become generally solid when you put them in the oven. Procure a pie crust. Combine the two, and remember that pies are not bound by the laws of sense.
If your interest has been piqued, check out chapter four of Christy Jordan's Sweetness: Southern Recipes to Celebrate the Warmth, the Love, and the Blessings of a Full Life, which features recipes for the aforementioned Coca-Cola pie as well as everyone's depression era favorite: the water pie. Go ahead. Make it. December 1 is National Pie Day. You wouldn't want to besmirch the name of National Pie Day, would you? Make the water pie.
Or there's these other books with "normal" recipes. If you're into that sort of thing.
- Pie Cookbooks
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Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy, Sweet, & Savory Slab Pies by Cathy Barrow
Made in a sheet pan, a slab pie can make enough dinner or dessert for a crowd. PIE SQUARED includes more than 60 savory and sweet pie recipes along with 20 crust and topping recipes and step-by-step techniques for rolling and decorating that will appeal to baking aficionados as well as occasional bakers. This fresh, uncomplicated take on pie will encourage those of you who have been reluctant in the past to now take out your rolling pin and try it.
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Discover recipes for all types of crusts and pastry, including gluten-free, whole wheat, and extra-flaky. Learn about the best tools and gadgets to make dough and fillings. Step-by-step instructions with photos make it easy for bakers of all levels.
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Pie Camp: The Skills You Need to Make Any Pie You Want by Kate McDermott
Readers fell in love with Kate McDermott and her story-filled cookbook, Art of the Pie. In this new book, McDermott takes her teaching to the next level. Here, she's focused more on technique: how to decorate pastry with braided crusts, troubleshoot a custard that won't set, create beautiful layered pies, and perfectly thicken your fruit filling. Once you have the foundations down, it's time to mix and match crusts, fillings, and toppings. The dozen "master" recipes--from flaky to tender to cookie crumb crusts, and fruit to cream to chiffon pies--will become part of every pie maker's repertoire and will open the door for bakers everywhere to conjure pies with self-assurance. There are gluten-free crust options for every pie, including Apple Ginger Maple Bourbon, Raspberry Peach Sunset Chiffon, Double Chocolate Banana ... plus recipes for easy homemade ice cream and pie-lets for one or two. Gorgeous color photography by Andrew Scrivani brings Pie Camp to vivid life. Over 100 color photographs.
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The Pie Room : 80 Achievable and Show-Stopping Pies and Sides for Pie Lovers by Calum Franklin
Discover the definitive pie bible from self-confessed pastry deviant, chef and London's King of Pies, Calum Franklin. Calum knows good pies and in his debut cookbook, The Pie Room, he presents a treasure trove of recipes for some of his favourite ever pastry dishes. Want to learn how to create the ultimate sausage roll? Ever wished to master the humble chicken and mushroom pie? In this collection of recipes, discover the secrets to 80 delicious and achievable pies and sides, both sweet and savoury, veggie and meat, including hot pork pies, cheesy dauphinoise and caramelised onion pie, hot and sour curried cod pie, the ultimate beef Wellington, and rhubarb and custard tarts. Alongside the recipes, Calum guides you through the techniques and tools for perfecting your pastry. Within these pages you'll find details including how to properly line pie tins, or how to crimp your pastry, and decorate your pies so they look like true show-stoppers. Say hello to your new foodie obsession and get ready to create your very own pie masterpiece.
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Amish Pies: Traditional Sweet & Savory Pies, Tarts & Whoopie Pies by Laura Anne Lapp
60 sweet and savory authentic Amish pies! The Amish are known for their delicious baked goods and Amish author Laura Lapp has been making pies of all sorts since she was a child in their Lancaster area Amish community. Passed down from real Amish grandmothers, tattered recipe boxes, and old books and diaries, here is an assortment of delicious sweet and savory pies, tarts, whoopie pies, and more that have been and continue to be popular in eastern Pennsylvania, particularly in the Lancaster area. Now you too can enjoy the scrumptious pies of old order Amish cooks. Prepare to make wonderful treats such as: • Shoofly Pie • Apple Pie • Cherry Pie • Oatmeal Pie • Vanilla Pie • Chocolate Pie • Pumpkin Whoopie Pies • Lemon Tart • Chicken Pot Pie • And more! These recipes will soon become your family favorites and go-to desserts for holidays, Sunday dinners, and potlucks. With simple ingredients and instructions that are easy to follow, you'll find yourself whipping up the same wonderful and comforting pies you'll find in Amish country.
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When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice. Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone wants to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of doing something for the right reason. With Pie, acclaimed author Sarah Weeks has baked up a sweet and satisfying delight, as inviting as warm pie on a cold day. You'll enjoy every last bite.
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Will Val pie hard on national TV? Business at the bakery may have slowed down, but Val Harris isn't about to eat humble pie-not until a reality cooking show decides to whip the struggling Pie Town into shape. If Val can tolerate criticism from an abrasive pastry chef during filming, the free publicity might turn the unusual opportunity into the sweetest deal she didn't know she needed. Except no one in San Nicholas has an appetite for dessert once murder steals the spotlight. When the show's bossy producer gets pushed to her death, Val and her flaky, septuagenarian pie crust expert, Charlene, follow crumbs in hopes of finding the killer. But with cameras still rolling and the shocking identity of the victim's replacement a guaranteed recipe for disaster, Val needs to stay cool long enough to solve the crime and keep Pie Town from falling apart-or else she just might go up in smoke before she ever graces the small screen.
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Pies and Prejudice by Ellery AdamsWhen the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her pies aren't just delicious. They're having magical effects on the people who eat them--and the public is hungry for more. Discovering her hidden talent for enchantment, Ella Mae makes her own wish come true by opening the Charmed Pie Shoppe. But with her old nemesis Loralyn Gaynor making trouble, and her old crush Hugh Dylan making nice, she has more than pie on her plate. and when Loralyn's fiancé is found dead--killed with Ella Mae's rolling pin--it'll take all her sweet magic to clear her name.
- Pie... Wait These Aren't About Pie, Are They?
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The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little computer which can be used in electronics projects, and for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word processing, browsing the internet, and playing games. It also plays high-definition video. This book takes you step-by-step through many fun and educational possibilities. Take advantage of several preloaded programming languages. Use the Raspberry Pi with Arduino. Create Internet-connected projects. Play with multimedia. With Raspberry Pi, you can do all of this and more.
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Here's the uncensored version of America's #1 comedy hit, re-edited to include the scenes you couldn't see in theatres. You'll never look at warm apple pie the same way again! American pie takes a hysterical look at the goal of four "unlucky in love" high school friends who make the ultimate pact: lose their virginity by prom night. As they try to manipulate their way into the ... hearts of some of their classmates, their plans often backfire with hilarity.
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True Diversity: Going Beyond the Pie Graph by Jesus LealPie Graphs are commonly used by corporations to illustrate their diversity. Improvements in pie graph analytics have been accepted as progress by corporate standards. True Diversity challenges this conventional wisdom, exposes the inherent weaknesses of pie graphs and challenges companies to Go Beyond The Pie Graph. To group all African Americans, Hispanics, Asians etc. into one slice of a pie graph is an insult and an undermining of the commercial power of a truly diverse organization. Consider the following individuals:
- An African American physician, born and raised in Uganda
- An African American chef, born and raised in Philly
- A Hispanic poet, born and raised in the Bronx by Puerto Rican parents
- A Cuban refugee who left his parents behind in communist Cuba
- A Chinese executive of a government run bus company
- A Vietnamese immigrant who came to America after the Vietnam War for asylum
It is possible that these individuals that would occupy the same slice of a pie graph may actually be more dissimilar than they are similar? Is it even remotely possible that the only reason that we group them in the same slice of the pie graph is to make ourselves feel better? How can we harness the power of their True Diversity that is not captured on a pie graph?
Descriptions adapted from the publisher.