# What are some of the stranger pies you have made? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002 "2008-07-02T03:25:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/21 "2008-07-02T17:08:21Z")
[QUOTE=Rayne Man] Steak and kidney pie is wonderful. I referring to the misconception some Americans have that we eat something called kidney pie. [/QUOTE] Never heard of it, nor have I heard anyone mention it. Steak & Kidney Pie is well known, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/22 "2008-07-02T17:23:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I made this Amish lemon pie with slices of lemon, peel and all. NASTY. The people I offered it to checked the recipe to make sure I hadn’t gone crazy. [/QUOTE] Me too! I didn’t think it was nasty, but I’m certainly not going to make it again: there are much better uses for my piemaking time. Every March 14, we celebrate International Pie Day at our house. Everyone brings pie, and we eat ourselves sick. It’s great. One year my brother brought a pie made from the oldest known pie recipe (so he claimed), a mixture of feta cheese and honey in a basic wheatflour crust. Supposedly it was an ancient Roman dessert. It looked like pumpkin pie and tasted like vomit. Quite an experience. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/23 "2008-07-02T17:24:18Z")
Also, I don’t know if this counts, but one time I made a chocolate cream pie. Not satisfied with the basicness of it, I candied thin strips of orange peels, and with them, cinnamon, and bitter chocolate shavings, made some sort of weird Aztec-inspired sun design on the top. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/24 "2008-07-02T17:30:06Z")
I occasionally make raisin pie when I’m feeling nostalgic (my mom used to make it, and I still use her recipe). For some odd reason, it makes everyone go “bleeeetch” until they taste it - then they apologize and ask for seconds. 🙂 Which makes me think that Concord grape pie is probably a dang tasty filling as well… I’[ll have to see if my old copy of the BH&G cookbook has the recipe. I’ve also made _tarte au sucre_, which is incredibly delicious despite the fact that the filling is pretty much nothing but sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/25 "2008-07-02T17:56:14Z")
[QUOTE=Labrador Deceiver] Never heard of it, nor have I heard anyone mention it. Steak & Kidney Pie is well known, as far as I can tell. [/QUOTE] I assure you this phrase as cropped on the board more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/26 "2008-07-02T18:03:23Z")
I love pie, who doesn’t. Some deviations from the usual: Onion pie- more of a quiche really (actually very old school German cooking, Zweibel Kuchen) Tomato basil pie- best with tomatoes and basil from our garden still warm from the sun. Cranberry pie - made on a whim from an old colonial recipe. It was damn tasty and is now part of the Thanksgiving menu. ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/27 "2008-07-02T18:07:15Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] Every March 14, we celebrate International Pie Day at our house. [/QUOTE] We have that twice a year at my house, the day after Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas. We have pie for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/28 "2008-07-02T18:38:10Z")
I made an elderberry pie for my dad once when he brought me a bag of elderberries and asked me to make him a pie. It was tasty. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/29 "2008-07-02T18:52:36Z")
I LOVE key lime pie. Several years ago I though - you know what would be good? Sort of an orange chiffon pie in a chocolate graham cracker crust. I couldn’t find a recipe at the time so I sort of made it up as I went (using a key lime pie recipe as a base). I ended up with great chocolate graham cracker crust soaked in hot orange juice. It didn’t set AT ALL and made a huge mess of the oven. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/30 "2008-07-02T19:13:33Z")
Stranger pies, hmm? o/`It's fop. Finest in the shop. And we have some shepherd's pie peppered With actual shepherd on top! And I've just begun -- Here's the politician, so oily It's served with a doily, Have one! Put it on a bun. Well, you never know if it's going to run! o/` ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/31 "2008-07-02T19:33:33Z")
For a really different experience, how about [star gazey fish pie](http://uknetweb.biz/investinfish/archive.php?id=114) (bottom of page). I would have thought that the site of all those dead fish staring at you would kill your appetite stone dead. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/32 "2008-07-02T19:52:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I made this Amish lemon pie with slices of lemon, peel and all. NASTY. The people I offered it to checked the recipe to make sure I hadn’t gone crazy. [/QUOTE] Sounds to me like **Shaker** Lemon Pie. Although, I suppose there’s no reason why the Amish couldn’t have invented it as well. I think I’ve eaten some, but the recipe is funny looking. ---
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**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/34 "2008-07-02T20:04:11Z")
When I was a Boy Scout, I had a pie iron–it clamped two slices of bread around a filler and I stuck it into the campfire until it was cooked. I usually used canned pie filling (cherry, apple, blueberry). Once, I tried M&Ms. It worked great! But I lost the pie iron and quit Scouts soon afterward. ---
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[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] I never really thought of it as strange pie, but I was the only person in my family who’d eat mince pie. I’d make several pies for the holidays and take them to my folks’ house for my contribution to the yummies. Pumpkin, pecan, apple, cherry, lemon meringue pies were wiped out, but I’d always take home a mince pie, with one slice out of it. But **freckafree** ’s green tomato mincemeat sounds downright bizarre to me. [/QUOTE] mince meat, or vegan mince’meat’? Makes a great difference. When I can get the venison I love making a classic medieval mince meat pie. ---
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[QUOTE=Rayne Man] Steak and kidney pie is wonderful. [/quote] Tried some once at an English-themed pub/restaurant. Like liver cubed. I was still tasting it the next day, and not in a good way. Maybe you need to grow up with it to appreciate it. ---
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My mother once picked a bunch of wild mulberries off a tree when we were camping. She decided to make a pie out of them. Sounds good so far… Then she got lazy and didn’t cut the stems off. This wonderful pie was ruined because the stems made it inedible. You could tell it would have been great. It smelled delicious the taste before you got to the unchewable stems was great. Needless to say, she threw it out. What a waste. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/38 "2008-07-03T00:27:13Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] mince meat, or vegan mince’meat’? Makes a great difference. When I can get the venison I love making a classic medieval mince meat pie. [/QUOTE] Neither, actually. No venison, so it’s just called mince instead of mincemeat, but it has suet in it, so it isn’t vegan either. ---
**Author:** ![Offkenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f08c70/32.png) [@Offkenter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Offkenter)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002/39 "2008-07-03T00:29:05Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] I made a chocolate pie with Rice Krispie crust. Make the standard treat recipe. [/QUOTE] Chocolate marshmallow treat pie. That’s brilliant. I have to try making that. Does anyone know how to nominate someone for a Nobel Prize? 🙂 ---
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I made a chocolate pie once that was flavored with cinnamon, coffee, and a little jalapeno. But it was more a torte than a pie. And I made a cheesburger pie once. It was unusual because it used ground beef as the crust, hash browns as the filling, and ketchup and cheese as the topping. Both were actually pretty good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-the-stranger-pies-you-have-made/455002.md?page=3)