Somewhere I have a recipe for a nutcracker pie. It’s made with saltines as the main ingredient. It also has nuts, vanilla, and probably sugar since it turns out sweet. I’ll have to find it. My oven hasn’t worked in years, but the recipe is yummy.
I have spent all day munching on something called ‘green onion pie.’ It’s fried and you dip it in chili sauce. Not mine, I get it at a local Taiwanese cafe.
I’m not much of a baker but do make oatmeal pie on occassion.
From my childhood growing up my favorites were
Rhubarb (none of those nasty strawberrys)
Rhubarb custard
Gooseberry
Green tomato
Red currant
the Gooseberries and Red currents grew by the millions all along the river and everyone in the valley would pick them for pies and jam, and Rhubarb jam is heaven on earth.
I’m embarrassed to submit this in the midst of actual accomplished pies, but I have long used the Bisquick Impoosible Pie recipe for leftovers and been delighted with the result. I think our favorite was a ham, cheddar and apple pie, or a taco pie with lots of jalapeños topped with sour cream and pico de gallo. Breakfast is often a frajita, which is another leftover solution.
I want to try the green tomato pie. Not enough recipes in this thread! Shouldn’t there be a corollary rule for these threads like the kitty/picture thread rule?
As a youngster, I once made a bacon and egg pie complete with pie crust from scratch. As I recall, my family quite liked it–and they didn’t usually like anything.
I also used to make a delicious pie out of canned roast beef hash, cheese, and eggs. I can think of no other use for canned roast beef hash, but that pie was craveworthy.
When I was little, one of the crazy old biddies in my family would make a mincemeat pie every year for the holidays. And not just, you know, here’s your pie. This fucker would have crenellations on it, like the crust was built to repel the siege of Syracuse. Fantastically huge. Now she’s long gone but I wish I had her recipe, mincemeat done well is extraordinary. You know what, I’m going to call my mom, if anyone has the recipe it would be her.
True enough. I suppose it’s just a localism that people I know restrict the use of ‘mincemeat’ to the stuff that actually has meat.
Ahh, gooseberries. Tinkertoy, my uncle used to make gooseberry pie, but he couldn’t find gooseberries in Houston in the 60’s. Dad used to pack up a bunch of cans of gooseberries to take him before we’d leave St. Louis on vacation. Funny thing is, I’ve never had gooseberry pie…my uncle didn’t make the pie till Thanksgiving and we were down there in the summertime.
Never heard of it, but based on my own kitchen foibles, did you perhaps use the ENTIRE peel, including the nasty bitter white part, and not just the outer yellow rind?
My strangest pie is sardine (canned in oil) with oregano and soy sauce, in a saltine crust. Best if made in a small size, as an hors d’oeuvre, so that the crust doesn’t get soggy. My own invention; I quite like them but I’ve never been able to persuade anyone else to try it.
No, see, you were supposed to use WHOLE LEMON SLICES, pith and all. That’s why my coworkers thought I was a moron and checked the cookbook. It macerated overnight which was supposed to make that pith part all nummy.
This wasn’t by chance from The Pie and Pastry Bible, was it? That’s where I got the recipe. I think I sliced the lemons extremely thin, which made them at least easy to chew.
But then, my favorite salmon recipe also has you eating slices of lemon, pith and all, so maybe I’m more tolerant of that than most folks.
::shudder:: That’s just icky. In the lemon pie vein, I really like the lemon part of lemon meringue pies. I can make a dandy meringue, but a couple times that I was just making the pie for me, I made lemon meringue with double lemon stuff and no meringue. Looked a little wierd, but I loved it.
What the heck kind of word is meringue anyway?. It looks odd. meringue meringue meringue