The History And Origin Of The Pie Recipe

A present day pie recipe states that it is baked in a pastry lined dish with pastry placed on top as well to cover the filling and differs from a tart where the filling is only baked in a pastry base. However both are baked in dishes and on removing from the oven run a knife round the side to loosen it from the pan and leave to cool in the pan.

What goes in as filling for a pie recipe may either be sweet or of a savory nature and may be of various dimensions. They may be large with many portions or very small for a single person. After the dish which is previously pastry lined is filled in it is closed with either a mashed potato cover or of the same pastry, brushed with egg wash before being baked.

Around 9500BC, history points out the pie as being first devised by the Egyptians calling those galettes and used to wrap honey within a case made of wheat, oats, barley, or rye grounded into a floury paste. These early sweet pastries and desserts were adapted from this pie recipe.

The Greeks are thought to be the first to discover pastry when they mixed flour with water and later added fat to make dough which they used to wrap meat in, to seal in juices while it cooked. This method of cooking allowed them to carry their food on long journeys as it was light in weight as well.

This knowledge was soon transferred to the Romans who used salt and spices to flavor and preserve their meat which they adopted into their version of the pie recipe. With the expansion of the Roman Empire a transport system was developed with good roads and pie making soon became known throughout Europe from where the practice soon spread to England around the 12th century. Later the early settlers carried their pie recipe with them to America. The hard to find resources found in the New World needed to be stretched and so the shallow round shaped pans came to be used to “cut corners”. The earliest pies contained fruit and berries that were pointed out to be edible by the Native Indians of North America.

From that earliest pie recipe the pie has now developed into a variety of styles and variations popular to different regions. Even the pastry has developed considerably. To mention some, they are the flaky crust pastries, short crust pastries and so on.

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