The pie thread

[Trombonus]

Ok, so we've had Ice Cream and fruit, so what could possibly be more appropriate than a favorite pie thread?

Mine is Banana cream pie. Every year I get one from Nation's instead of a regular birthday cake. Sometimes I luck out and get both. Not only that, but we'd always go to Nations after every concert, and I'd get a large slice of banana cream every time. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

I also love Apple and chocolate cream.

So what's your pie of choice?

 

[TE999]

Sweet Potato pie is my fave, followed by pumpkin, Boston Cream and blueberry.

A dollop of ice cream added to them (except the Boston Cream), makes them even tastier.

 

[sethp]

Home Baked Pumpkin Pie with Fresh whipped cream! wonderful!

 

[glynndah]

I make a very, very good Lemon Meringue pie.

 

[sethp]

I tried making Key Lime pie from scratch last couple of holidays. Hard pie to make.

 

[Remec]

So what's your pie of choice?

Shoo-fly.

Followed by blueberry, key lime (a recent addition to the list), my mom's strawberry/banana/rhubarb, and prolly pumpkin.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Pecan, Key Lime, Lemon Meringue ... Mmmm!

 

[neonlyte]

Been off pie for a while. Back in the patisserie days, I made 72 different types to order.

My favorites were Walnut and Carrot with a sweetened cream cheese fondant, and Orange and Almond, sticky, versatile, delicious chilled on summer afternoons.

Orange & Almond Cake

Ingredients

Syrup
285g caster sugar
285ml water
2 oranges
Juice of 1 lemon
4 cloves
level teaspoon of ground cinnamon

Cake
115g golden caster sugar
130ml vegetable oil
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
4 medium eggs
3 teaspoons baking powder
340g ground almonds


Cake
Grease a 20cm cake tin and line with baking parchment
Separate eggs.
Beat egg yolks, caster sugar, oil and orange zest (keep orange flesh for syrup)
Mix almonds with baking powder and stir into egg/sugar mixture
Beat egg white until firm and fold gently into mixture.

Bake in over for 25 – 30 mins at 180C (ready when skewer comes out clean)
- the top may ‘puff up’ if so prick it over with a skewer to deflate ‘skin’

Syrup
Make syrup while cake is baking
Combine water, sugar, lemon juice, cloves cinnamon and juice of orange, place on heat, stir with a whisk preferably, to combine the ingredients and bring to boil then lower heat so it simmers. (Best to keep an eye on this as it may suddenly boil and overflow the pan – which is a sticky and smelly mess to clean!)

Once it is simmering, use a paring cutter to strip the peel off second orange and keep. (If you don’t have a paring cutter, peel the orange, remove the white pith and cut the orange peel into the thinnest possible slices)

Once peel is removed, squeeze the orange, add the juice to syrup.

You need to reduce the syrup until it is of syrup consistency, takes about as long as the cake takes to cook, you don’t want it too thick or too thin.

When ready, add the thin strips of orange peel and remove from heat. The orange peel will ‘cook’ in the residual heat (as long as it is cut thin enough)

Allow cake to cool for ten minutes then remove from tin. Stand on plate, prick top surface all over and spoon over hot syrup. The cake tends to sink in the middle during cooking, use the back of a spoon to draw the syrup across the surface, let it trickle down the side – oh, remove cloves!

 

[NoJo]

Florence Nightingale is credited with developing a form of the pie chart now known as the polar area diagram, or occasionally the Nightingale rose diagram and first published in 1858.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Home Baked Pumpkin Pie with Fresh whipped cream! wonderful!

I'm not a fan of whipped cream, but I have to give a definite Yes to home baked Pumpkin Pie

 

[MagicaPractica]

Let's see....

Straight up Rhubarb Pie.

Mincemeat with a chopped tart apple added before baking.

Apple pie made with Northern Spies.

My mother's Pumpkin Pie (no ginger.)

Oooo, the diner near where I work does a marvelous dark chocolate French Silk type of pie.

I adore Key Lime.

Pecan Pie, heavy on the pecans.

 

[3113]

Blackberry/Boysenberry and Pumpkin are always my first two choices--summer and winter pies, if you will, as I can never resist the boysenberry when such berries are in season, and, when late October rolls around, I *must* have my slice of pumpkin pie.

I also like sour cherry but can't get fresh sour cherries where I live to make said pie. I do make a mean fresh strawberry pie, piled high with ripe, uncooked strawberries on a thin layer of sweetened cream/cream cheese mix. That one's addictive.

 

[Trombonus]

Thanks for the recipe neon, it sounds delicious!

And lol @ Joe, that works for me!

I'm surprised no one's gone for the obvious joke yet though, especially on this forum.

 

[3113]

Apple pie made with Northern Spies

I like apple pie just fine, but I've found that here in Southern CA, it's really hard to get good apples for a really good apple pie. I had friends who once brought me apples from Minneapolis--I don't know what kind they were, but they were small, very crisp and just the right amount of tart...and not imported to California so I'd never seen or tasted them.

Best Apple pie I ever made or tasted, bar none.

I think people take apple pie so much for granted that they don't know how wonderful it can be if it's made with the right sort of fresh apples.

 

[fille]

Definitely blueberry, followed by lemon chess pie.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I like apple pie just fine, but I've found that here in Southern CA, it's really hard to get good apples for a really good apple pie. I had friends who once brought me apples from Minneapolis--I don't know what kind they were, but they were small, very crisp and just the right amount of tart...and not imported to California so I'd never seen or tasted them.

Best Apple pie I ever made or tasted, bar none.

I think people take apple pie so much for granted that they don't know how wonderful it can be if it's made with the right sort of fresh apples.

Might have been Prairie Spy apples. They're a bit more common than Northern Spy but still not found in stores. In a pinch, I'll use Granny Smith.

 

[sethp]

I'm not a fan of whipped cream, but I have to give a definite Yes to home baked Pumpkin Pie

Do you use anything to top it off with?

 

[kimbalee]

no one said raspberry yet? shocked.

 

[matriarch]

My favourite autumn pie: Blackberry and apple, with a thick, hot, home made custard. The apples have to be English, which don't start fruiting until late summer/early autumn, so they're in seasonal tune with the blackberries that I will go out in the hedgerows and fields and woods to pick.

Other than that: Lemon meringue, egg custard, good old apple and cherry.

I find pumpkin and pecan far too sweet for my taste.

Not sure if it counts as a pie, but I adore cheesecake........

 

[_Lynn_]

I guess it would be either an apple crumb pie or the pecan pie that I make myself.

I'm with mat, though, on the cheesecake.