Gooseberry. They're hard to come by these days. If not gooseberry, then rhubarb, just plain rhubarb.

Rhubarb pumpkin. Or cherry. Or lemon meringue. I just have to face it I love pie. Unfortunately these days it is all gluten-free. Also I cannot use real sugar so I mash up dates. I'm okay with that when I don't compare it mentally to real pie and pie crust :-).

Thank you Carolb! I have never used flour in the filling. I too will use other sorts of nuts though it is hard to beat pecans. I used to get really fresh ones from my Grannie and great aunt in Mississippi. Grannie picked up the pecans and Aunt Short shelled them out and mailed them to me always with a can of local molasses as we always put that in the pie as well. It was a lighter version than you can buy in the store here made by their extended family.

Zalco, puff pastry is actually easy. You do have to rest the dough between turns and keep it cool but that is it.

@plllog, I agree. I do not like the name ”Crack Pie.” I think there has been a push to change the name to ”Milk Bar Pie,” much better, but I don’t know that it is catching on.

Blueberry pie from wild blueberries. Though I won't say no to any other berry pie.

Blackberry pie or cobbler, of course. Served warm with vanilla ice cream on top. Very summery.

One of my earliest memories was standing at my mother’s elbow as she labored to hand-beat egg whites for a lemon meringue pie. Learning the ingredients for meringue was all the information I needed - I have not and will not ever eat meringue.

I have been enjoying walking down this entire path of memories and thoughts.

Thank you!

littlebug, what ingredients keep you from eating meringue? Unless you're vegan, then I totally get it!

You're welcome, patricae 😃

And might that molasses have been sorghum? I love sorghum molasses.

And FWIW, I just took a tomato pie out of the oven...

Carolb, tomato pie recipe, please. I love tomato pie, but I think there must be recipes better than mine which is basically, a par-baked crust filled with tomato wedges covered in a mixture of mayo, mozz, and basil with a little garlic and some parm.

For thise i terested in the NC lemon pie, I’ve posted pics of the recipe with my notes. I use whipped cream. And I do not use all the crust as it makes too much, imo, making it too thick.

Also, for a pecan pie, I have always added pecan halves carefully to the top after pouring in the liquid filling. it’s prettier that way to me. I start with the outside rim and work inward. You can turn any recipe into a bourbon pecan pie.

This is a Brown Butter and Bourbon pecan pie I’ve made recently. Didn't make this crust recipe and I used maple syrup for the ’light syrup’. I ’may’ have used a little more bourbon than called for, adjusting other liquids.

https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/bourbon-brown-butter-pecan-pie.html

Banana cream pie hands down.

My favorite pie is marionberry. I can't say I've ever had a fried pie. I was born and raised and live in Seattle so maybe that's why.

Rob333, egg whites! Just the thought of it makes me queasy.

You ain't alone LB.

Buttermilk pie. I make it with a shortening crust and using a raw type sugar really makes a difference. Eaten cold out of the fridge, it's a good summer pie.

I love buttermilk pie. Also very tart lemon meringue, dark chocolate with whipped cream, pecan pie and the one made with crackers, meringue and pecans. I don't care for fruit pies. I don't like cooked fruit.

My mother thought there was no finer breakfast than a slice of chocolate pie… the kind with meringue on it. Mother had quite a sweet tooth, but was always slender. Wish I had inherited that gene!

I too have apple pie and fudge pie for breakfast.

I don't, however, have the slender gene.

😔

I couldnt resist

And look what i had for lunch today! A real fried peach pie in a little country place we drove to. DH and I split it

Oh yum. The best fried pies are made from reconstituted dried fruit. Fried apple was grannie's claim to fame. People grabbed them before dinner because it was the only way to get one. She always made them for church suppers and such.

And yes Carolb, Sorghum. So very different from the tarry stuff the stores sell.

My personal favorite dessert pies are apple, pumpkin, mince and cherry, in that order. With a good dollop of whipped cream. Sometimes replaced with a slice of cheese on an apple pie.

But those are winter pies. For summer, Millionaire's Pie is the absolute best in my opinion, closely followed by Lemon Icebox pie, and maybe fresh strawberry pie. NO cow slobber (aka merengue) on any pie, ever, for me, thank you!

Rusty

patricia,

I'm so glad you said that. That's the recipe I picked for my peach fried pie.

https://www.southernplate.com/fried-peach-pies/

I full confidence to go forward 😊

Rob, I’ll bet your pies will turn out great! The ones I made a few times were made similarly, and the one we had today was made with dried peaches. It was larger, which is why we split it.

Outside, thank you for posting recipe. Your hand pie looks soooo good.

You know you have a real recipe when someone instructs you to moosh something.

I am inspired to look for dried peaches next time I am in town!

uh, pizza pie ...

I'm thinking home pie making may be less common out west as elsewhere. I don't think I've ever had one. I'm excluding pumpkin pies some "make" from canned pumpkin.

I know that deep frying is also quite common in the South, I'm not sure fried pie sounds very appealing.

I had outstanding peach pie this weekend, from a local bakery. Sometimes I moon about key lime pie, too; it’s been far too long.

elmer,

You're being absurd! No one makes pie in California? Deep frying is "common" in the south? Seriously? You must be bored. If you don't like sweet pie, have crab quiche. Make a white pizza. Your circles are too small honey.

Interesting about fried pies using dried fruit. Daddy always used frozen peaches that Momma had ”put up” the summer before. Wonder how he drained them to keep the pies from being too wet?

LOL!! I do believe Elmer does need to get out more! Or broaden his palate :-)) Pies, especially fruit pies, are just as common in California and the rest of the west coast as they are anywhere else in the country!! There are numerous restaurants that specialize in pies and even an entire town known for its pies (Julian, CA).

btw, since fruit growing is such a big deal on the west coast, there are many specialty pie makers that market their product to premium retailers, like Willamette Valley Pies or Remlinger Farm Pies.

Rob, lived here all my life, never had a homemade pie. Our comments share views and experiences - that's mine. And speaking of experiences, with seemingly 1-2 weeks spent every year in various places in the South during a career lasting many decades, my experience was that fried food is much more common there than where I call home.

gardengal, you missed the word "home" in my comment, I said "home pie making". That's what I've never had, a homemade pie. Yes, we eat pies, bought in stores and bakeries. A favorite of ours are the apple pies made by a family that has apple orchards down in the Watsonville area, worth the trip to get and a Thanksgiving tradition for us. Gizdich Ranch, for those in my area. They make bush berry pies from their own berry production too but we don't like those berries particularly - speaking of olallieberry, boysenberry, blackberry.

Julian is known for apples and pies because of being the Podunk it is, there are annual apple related events to attract visitors and their money. Many small towns with little else to offer do that - . Castroville has an Artichoke Festival, for Gilroy it's the Garlic Festival, Calaveras county has its Jumping Frog event. I love artichokes and garlic, and frog legs (Cuisses de grenouille) aren't bad either, though that's not what the event in the Gold Country is about .

Still think it's your small circle. And what is sold at a restaurant to tourists is hardly mainstream. Maybe you weren't invited into homes in the South.

Maybe it's for the reason I suggested.

I have lived in a whole lot of places including more than one part of California and I can attest to home made pie being in all of them, not normally made by me of course since making pie is not my usual thing unless it is quiche. I would grant that frying food at home has been more of a southern thing though not so much these days with so many places to get to do it for you. Still fried food has been readily available everywhere for a very long time. Frying when you had lots of pigs made sense and it was cooler to do than baking in an oven.

A fried pie is not the heavy greasy thing that Elmer envisions. It is crisp on the outside and the inner part of the crust is flaky and the filling as sweet or savory as you choose.

As CA has such a large Latin population, empanadas - fried turnovers much like a pie - are everywhere!! I can't imagine not coming in contact with them.

I don't think I've ever had dessert in a Mexican restaurant. The ones I tend to prefer - the grungy, authentic, "Mama's or Papa's in the back cooking" kind rarely offer it. When I've seen it, I recall most often seeing flan or tres leches. As far as true street food is concerned, I avoid fried things - like churros.

Give me sweet potato pie, homemade, any ole time, vs pumpkin pie.

I was just looking at my local FB after I read this thread about pie. What a coincidence - this ad is for a very small mom and pop cafe here in rural north Missouri. Today’s special: fried pies!

And fried everything else! The bacon in the BLT is probably not deep fried but it's almost the same.

Glenda, you are so right. Sweet potato knocks the socks off pumpkin.

And like I said fried food is readily available outside of the south. You know like Missouri is not the south. I like the idea of a variety of pie types. I bet they make them to order.

"You know like Missouri is not the south."

Been there much? I have. Maybe not to someone from Mississippi but what I've seen and experienced there, much of Missouri is not all that different from much of the South.

JaWandas Sweet Potato Pies

the best found on my end of town

sweet potato fried pies

Elmer, Missouri is the Midwest.

I am not from Mississippi. I was born in Washington state which is where I live now. I am not actually from anywhere having moved a lot in my formative years. We could compete over where we have been.

Your disparage of anything southern is odd. I have managed to move around without finding fault with where I have been. There is something amazing about every single place I have lived. I have lived in the San Franciso Bay area by the way.

Missouri was a border state during the Civil War, dividing itself north-and-south roughly along the Missouri River with Union sympathizers in the north, Confederates in the south.

Here in north Missouri, many identify with Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois small town farming values, not Branson-area hillbillies (that’s good-natured ribbing!). And not with the city slickers in Kansas City and St. Louis either!

Edited to add: yes, we consider ourselves midwesterners.

Yes littlebug.

What qualifies as southern could be its own thread. It is true people seem to think it has to do with divisions of the civil war but it is way more complex than that. When I moved to Kentucky for a job I thought of myself as moving to the north although I moved to southern Kentucky where their accent is pronounced and the culture intense. I once lived briefly in Virginia and know that Virginia isnt southern per se, it is Virginian as Texas is Texan vs being just southern. They have their own culture. And then Louisiana, Heavens, Southern Louisiana is like moving to a foreign country it is so different. All in fun and wonderful ways of course

When it comes to pie...I love them all...hot cold! 😉

"I have lived in the San Franciso Bay area by the way."

I said nothing disparaging about the South other than to say fried food is much more common than in other parts of the country. And that parts of Missouri I've been to (yes, the southern part) seemed much more "Southern" than not. That was in response to littlebug's photo showing that cafe's every special that day, dessert included, was fried.

I'm sure living in different places had many positive aspects for you.

Are you the person who mentioned some time ago having spent time living in Davis? With the exception of UCD that gives it some of a college town vibe that could be anywhere, I think Davis is much more accurately described as a Sacramento Valley location than a Bay Area one. Don't you?

Nope, not Davis and yes that is Sacramento. I was there once on the train. They are big into found roses there. The architecture was attractive. Just coming and going to the train station doesn't give me any insight into the local people though. Re the roses I have communicated with some of the people and they were super nice.

Sorry then, it was someone else.