Pie vs. Cake

bye bye miss tart

This is a Dutch apple pie:
http://search.chow.com/thumbnail/1280/800/www.chowstatic.com/assets/2013/09/30859_Recipeimage_620x413_dutch_apple_pie.jpg

Note the crumble topping.

This is a crumble:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/sites/default/files/styles/recipe/public/recipe_images/recipe-image-legacy-id--219487_11.jpg?itok=VWh9sJnD

Crumble has, well, crumble on top. But a pie is baked in a shell, top or no top.

http://www.thekitchn.com/pie-vs-tart-whats-the-differen-68710

A pie is a sweet or savory dish with a crust and a filling. The sides of a pie dish or pan are sloped. It can have a just a bottom, just a top, or both a bottom and a top crust. A pie crust is traditionally made of flour, salt, cold water, and lard (or shortening) but many pie crust recipes use a combination of fats such as butter, lard, or vegetable shortening, or just butter. The goal is a crisp, flaky crust. Pies are served straight from the dish in which they were baked.

A tart is a sweet or savory dish with shallow sides and only a bottom crust. Tart crusts are usually made from pastry dough: traditionally flour, unsalted butter, cold water, and sometimes sugar. The goal is a firm, crumbly crust. Tarts are baked in a pan with a removable bottom, or in pastry ring on top of a baking sheet so that it can be unmolded before serving.

They call them "cousins," along with galettes.

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this thread

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a pie is a featherless biped

this thread is kind of a pecan pie of sorts in that it is filled with nuts!

pie revisionists secretly voted cake

I think the only thing we can all agree on is that, no, Boston cream pie is not pie.

The Dutch Apple Pie does look like a pie! It has the bottom bit and the crumble makes a kind of lid, so it's more pie-like to me than tart type things.

The 'kitchn' link pretty much firms up the true definition, but I still maintain the average (British) person would expect both top and bottom crusts on something claiming to be a pie. Meaning is use and all that.

the average (British) person

outrageous imo

I voted cake before thinking this through and I've been regretting it every day

It's ok, there's no electoral college in ilx and the right candidate won.

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ice cream cake got robbed

Nobody heard it, the ice cream cake
But still it lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but melting.

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There's no argument that pie is more versatile and pretty fantastic. But cake is CAKE.

when did cake bacon

it's possible cake baconed before bacon

did pie bacon before weebl? probably

https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/496413655202676736?lang=en

Yeah well he set the scene for Trump, so he can fuck off.

There is no doubt that Trump prefers cake.

cake baconed??

i thought that was cupcakes

tbf in the uk all of baking baconed the moment mary berry lifted a hopeful contestant's vol-au-vent to her lips

bakened

boke

bakt

love chocolate

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Think you'll find that the protruding head makes that a torte

u_u

also must allow doo doo pies

I'm a little embarrassed by how long I laughed at this.

let me tell you something about cake: i want 5 (not four) cakes for this Christmas

because at Christmas, you eat cake

That is more than fair. Cake can have its day, just as every dog has its day.

i have eaten a roughly equal amount of cake and pie over the last 2 days, pie probably edging it

The English seem to favor puddings on Christmas, the poor sods.

Christmas pudding is great but i've got the feeling i'm the only one in this house who likes it

i will readily admit that i could not deny bread or banana pudding on any day

Don't even start a debate as to what is or is not a pudding.

That said, I just baked a dozen individual sticky toffee puddings topped with kumquats that counter the sweetness. Just waiting to be doused with toffee sauce and put under the broiler.

Should say I also made an annoyingly elaborate 4-layer boozy rum cake (took three days!). And my wife made a cheesecake. Or cream cheese pie, if you prefer.

would eat kumquat toffee pudding and/or rum cake, obv

RUM CAKE omg

It's truly insane. Four-layer sponge cake soaked with rum syrup, with layers of rum-spiked cream in between and around the whole pile of cakes, then coated with a rum-spiked whipped cream. In total: 14 eggs, but no butter!

damnnnn!!! jealous.

I think my wife is making a chocolate bourbon pecan pie for tomorrow's dessert festivities. At least I heard the idea floated and now it better happen otherwise a bunch of presents are going straight into the fireplace.

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