We have a winner! Courtesy of katyethinks.Thanks to everyone for participating in the pie survey. Turns out, most of us love to eat pumpkin pie with vanilla ice cream while listening to “American Pie” by Don McLean. The daring among us wanted to try shoofly pie, a molasses pie popular among the Pennsylvania Dutch and in the South. For more in-depth results, check out the pies and links below:
Pumpkin’s popular:
Vanilla, please:
What’s in a name:
Definitions excerpted from Wikipedia. Click on the pie for a recipe.
- Banoffee pie is an English dessert made from bananas, cream and boiled condensed milk (or dulce de leche), either on a pastry base or one made from crumbled biscuits and butter. Its name is a portmanteau constructed from the words “banana” and “toffee.”
- Buko pie is a traditional Filipino pastry style, young-coconut(malauhog)-filled pie. Similar to coconut cream pie, it’s made with just young coconuts (buko in Tagalog) and has no cream.
- Chess pie is a traditional Southern dessert. Most recipes call for a single crust and a filling of eggs, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. What sets chess pie apart from many other custard pies is the substitution of corn meal for flour.
- Funeral pie, also called raisin pie, traditionally was served at funerals, probably because it could be made at any season and kept well without refrigeration. It was common at the funerals of Old Order Mennonites and Amish.
- Shoofly pie is a molasses pie considered traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch and the South.
- Sugar pie is a typical dessert in France and Belgium, Quebec, and the Midwestern United States. It’s a single-crust pie with a filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, and cream, with brown sugar or maple syrup (sometimes both) often used as additional filler. When baked, these ingredients combine into something like caramel. The name “finger pie” for the dessert was due to stirring the pie during baking with one’s finger. It was stirred this way to avoid breaking the crust.
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