Nitpick: Grapefruit is about the most un-bitter food you can find. Sour and bitter are not only not synonyms, they’re exact opposites.
And I’ve eaten vinegar pie. I don’t remember at all what it tasted like, but it wasn’t bad.
I entered an orange pie in a pillsbury bakeoff about 12 years ago. A nice orange cream base, with prettily arranged oranges on top, flavoring augment was a touch of cloves [very light, it is easy for cloves to get really overpowering] in the orange cream.
Actually very nice, and not at all like a key lime sort of pie, or lemon meringue pie either.
Here’s another cantaloupe pie recipe. This one is cream-cheese based.
Really? Depends on the grapefruit, but some of the commercial yellow varieties are a mix of bitter, sour, and sweet. But definitely bitter. And I love bitter, which is why I prefer the yellow varieties of grapefruit more than the sweet-sour Ruby Reds, for instance. Describing grapefruit as the most “un-bitter” food is puzzling to me.
edit: Apparently, naringin is the compound responsible for grapefruit’s bitter bite. I’m also unsure how bitter is the opposite of sour. I don’t see how any of the tastes are opposites of the other. How does one qualitatively determine this? Like why isn’t sweet the opposite of sour? Or salty
I should amend the above to say that it’s not that Ruby Reds aren’t bitter (they definitely have a bitter component to them), it’s just not as forward a flavor as in the yellow types of grapefruit.
I made Alton Brown’s pear/cranberry pie this year and it was pretty much the best pie I ever had. It was extremely time intensive (as Alton’s recipes tend to be) but definitely worth it. His super apple pie was pretty awesome as well.
I have made savory pies from ripe tomatoes, and they were really good. Tomato, fresh basil, shredded cheese, with a mayonnaise dressing. . . divine!
Both are defined as fruits (botanically)-so why not? Avocado pie sounds disgusting, however.
Are jujubes fruits?
I think that was said because alkali things taste bitter, and acidic things taste sour. Alkali and acidic are opposites of the Ph scale.
Prune pie?
I’ve had watermelon pie and it was pretty good. It was actually watermelon gellatin, instead of the fruit straight up. I don’t think it would work so well if you baked watermelon.
If you haven’t had a concord grape pie, you’re missing out. I’ve never served one to someone who didn’t love it.