Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A Write-up of Class Southern Pie

By Kathy Smith


Pie continues to be among the South's most time-honored and well-loved baked goods. The manner in which I see desserts is that, everyone is divided into two distinctive clubs: those who like cakes and those who like pies.

The evolution of pie, and Our country's undying romance with it, was really a slow and messy journey - not unlike baking a pie itself. Warm pie is going to take you home even though you're sitting in a slick table in a noisy and busy restaurant that seats and serves hundreds of people and prepares nearly a million meals every single year.

Some lucky people are born to make pie and pie crust from scratch; you can see it each time they flick their wrist, the ease and speed touch in the tips of their fingers, and accurate instincts about how it should taste, look, texture, smell, and even feel within the mouth.
Pie is one of the mainstays that has enabled Southern cuisine to expand across the country.

Pie can be served whole or in rich, delicious slices like coconut cream, banana, rhubarb, or chocolate. In my home, a good pie crust that is buttery, crunchy and thick is a rite of passage. Regardless how you slice or even bake it, pie is classic, simple, easy and it is enduring. There is no substitute to warm, right out of the oven, homemade pie to complete a great meal.

A good and enduring concept of pie doesn't get a lot more bite-sized than this: Any kind of food, from four-and-twenty blackbirds all the way to peaches to coffee mousse, that is cooked in a crust. Still, we have been of the mind-set that pie is never more scrumptious, more full of many advantages and all that which implies, than when it involves little more than a superbly ripe berry, a heavenly dollop of real whipped cream, any crust.




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