pie

/paɪ/

/paɪ/

Other forms: pies

A pie is a baked dessert with a pastry crust. If your favorite kind of pie is apple, you might order it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.

Most pie is sweet, but there are also meat and vegetable pies, often called "pot pies." Like dessert pies, these savory dishes are often topped with pastry. Other pies have a bottom crust and an open top, while some have both a top and bottom pastry crust. If something is described as "easy as pie," it's very easy — though it's arguable whether it's really all that easy to make a pie.

Definitions of pie

1. noun

   dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
   types:

   tart

   a small open pie with a fruit filling

   cobbler, deep-dish pie

   a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

   shoofly pie

   open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses

   mince pie

   pie containing mincemeat

   apple pie

   pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar

   lemon meringue pie

   pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue

   blueberry pie

   pie containing blueberries and sugar

   rhubarb pie

   pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar

   pecan pie

   pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs

   pumpkin pie

   pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar

   squash pie

   similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin

   patty

   small pie or pasty

   meat pie

   pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough

   quiche

   a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables)

   apple tart

   a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar

   lobster tart

   a pastry shell filled with cooked lobster

   tartlet

   a small tart usually used as a canape

   pasty

   small meat pie or turnover

   tourtiere

   a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec

   shepherd's pie

   pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven

   steak and kidney pie

   steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked

   kidney pie

   like steak and kidney pie but without steak

   type of:

   pastry

   any of various baked foods made of dough or batter