'pie'

I have confusion to the meaning of 'pie'.
'pie' means a small cut piece of any fruit or meat etc. that is covered in pastry.
Do you agree with my definition I have given above.
Please comment.
Thanks.

No. It has nothing to do with "a small cut piece ."

I agree with sdgraham about what the meaning of pie is. Most pies I have seen are large, like the one in the picture above, and enough to serve several people. However, pies may also be smaller, made for a single person.

semeeran said:

pie' means a small cut piece of any fruit or meat etc. that is covered in pastry.

I wonder whether you meant to say that the fruit or meat in a pie is usually cut into pieces. If so, that is true, although there some pies with filled with soft custards or other kinds of fillings.

Still I can't understand what is basically a pie.
Is it something like a candy or a dish?
Please narrate what is a pie?
Thanks.

A pie is basically anything edible covered all over with pastry. The most usual contents are (cut up) pieces of fruit or meat but it could be pieces of vegetable or mushrooms or something else (although at the moment I can't think what that might be).

An exception to that is the very US term for pizza, 'pizza pie'. There are a few other pies which do not conform to a normal pie as well. I'm sure you'll find a few of you google "pie"

A pie has a crust (baked dough) with something inside it. Here is an apple pie. You can see crust above and below the cut apple filling:

Sometimes there is no crust (dough) above the filling, but only below it, as in this pumpkin pie.
(This is a sweet desert pie. We add sugar to the pumpkin.)

Culinary terms are notoriously tricky, and subject to regional variations. The English-language Wikipedia might give some guidance:

Pie - Wikipedia

Yes, the second picture in post #7, i.e. anything with an open top, would be called a tart in Britain (although it would rarely contain pumpkin).

British Pie Week: 10 things you never knew about pies

Worth a read. Especially where it talks about the 'Make wrongly describing a casserole with a pastry lid as a pie a criminal offence' petition :

"A pie is defined by the OED as "A baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry." This petition urges the implementation of criminal sanctions upon the owners of food outlets that serve items described as pies without a pastry base."

Obviously tongue-in-cheek. 👁 Smile :)


The article also asks if Shepherd's Pie is really a pie at all and, to be honest, according to the OED definition of a pie, it isn't. It isn't even made with pastry. The same goes for Cottage Pie as weìell, but will we ever change their names because they don't fit a dictionary definition? No, of course not.

Anyway, this was just to show that it isn't easy to define a pie.