About Pies
The Basics
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies can be either "filled", where a dish is covered by pastry and the filling is placed on top of that, "top-crust," where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking, or "two-crust," with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Pies can be a variety of sizes, ranging from bite-size to ones designed for multiple servings.
Regional Variations
Meat pies with fillings such as steak, cheese, steak and kidney, minced beef, or chicken and mushroom are popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand as take-away snacks. They are also served with chips as an alternative to fish and chips at British chip shops.
These meat pies contain beef and gravy in a shortcrust piecase, often with a flaky top. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.
Also popular in the UK is the 'pub style pie', which consists of a meat and vegetable filling baked in a dish, with a puff pastry lid on top. These pies do not typically have a pastry base or sides, and are thus considered healthier than most other types of pie because of the ratio of pastry to filling.
Pot pies with a flaky crust and bottom are also a popular American dish, typically with a filling of meat (particularly beef, chicken or turkey), gravy, and mixed vegetables (potatoes, carrots and peas). Frozen pot pies are often sold in individual serving size.
Fruit pies may be served with a scoop of ice cream, a style known in North America as à la mode. Apple pie is a traditional choice, though any pie with sweet fillings may be served à la mode. This combination, and possibly the name as well, is thought to have been popularized in the mid-1890s in the United States.
About The Site
Slice of Heaven was approved and created in May 2009 by Michelle aka Bloo. This site is listed at The Fanlistings Network and Die Hard Fan under the Food/Drinks: Baked Goods category. The layout was created with the help of Photoshop CS2 and Dreamweaver MX. For a complete list of external resources, please refer to the exit page.