pies

Baked fruit pastries

Pies is the plural of pie—a baked dish with a crust and filling.

Savory pies contain meat or vegetables; sweet pies hold fruit or custard.

The word appears in idioms: easy as pie, pie in the sky, a finger in every pie.

To pie someone is to throw a pie in their face, usually as protest or prank.

filling

apple

Crisp tree fruit

pecan · custard · meat · chicken · beef · mincemeat · rhubarb · shepherd's · cottage · potpie

holiday

Thanksgiving

Autumn gratitude holiday

mincemeat · apple · feast · tradition · family · celebration · harvest · autumn · Easter · dinner

baking

oven

Enclosed cooking chamber

homemade · recipe · lattice · preheat · buttery · vent · tin · crimping · timer · rolling-pin

varieties

tart

Sharp-flavored small pie

turnover · quiche · empanada · pasty · strudel · pandowdy · crostata · frangipane · clafoutis · shoofly

savory

meat

Animal tissue for food

  • gravyThickened meat drippings
  • chickenDomestic fowl for eating
  • beefBovine meat for eating

pork · lamb · steak · kidney · leek · onion · potato · cheese · egg · quiche

pastry

shortcrust

Crumbly, buttery pastry dough

  • flakyCrumbly or unreliable
  • doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
  • filoTissue-thin pastry dough

suet · choux · butter · lard · flour · laminated · tender · crumbly · golden-brown · knead

sweet

sugar

Crystalline carbohydrate sweetener

chocolate · meringue · cream · berries · peach · glaze · syrup · icing · streusel · nutmeg

comfort

homemade

Prepared at one's residence

cozy · grandmother's · nostalgic · Sunday · family · homestyle · satisfying · soothing · welcoming · kitchen

slang

pizza

Topped flatbread dish

  • faceHead's anterior surface
Categories
Phrases
Family

pie, pied, piemaker, piemaking

Familiarity
Top 5,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G