[Sca-cooks] What is the difference between a pie and a tart?

[Carol Smith]

My pumpkin pie recipe never had a top crust, nor did my mother's, or the tart.  The tart did, however, have vanilla, and may have had a less strong spice mixture.  (It was a completely modern recipe, and I like a spicy pumpkin pie.  This wasn't it.  It was OK, just not great.)  The crust was not, for me, a normal pie crust (flour, butter, cold water, salt); it had brown sugar and an egg in addition.  The crust was pretty good.  In fact, I'll probably try a variant of it the next time I attempt canisones, as it is sweet, and my usual crust is not, which makes this crust more "wafer-like", which is what the canisone recipe calls for.   Apparently it either resembles ravioli (whatever ravioli looked like back in the day) or was rolled into thin wafers and cut to finger length?
 
As to the difference between a pie and a tart, I always thought of a tart as much smaller overall, although the recipe called for a 9 inch tart shell (and the filling was too much for the shell as specified, though it measured 9.5" at the diameter).   Today, the difference seems to be that a tart is not as high as a pie is, but I don't really see much difference otherwise.  And those who know more than I should feel free  to continue my education, if I'm wrong.
 
And does anyone have a recipe for a thin crunchy sweet wafer without dairy products which may be rolled or cooked in a wafer iron?
 
Regards,
B.
 
> From: StefanliRous at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:29:21 -0600
> To: SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] What is the difference between a pie and a tart?
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> Brekke commented:
> <<< pumpkin tart (new this year, in lieu of pumpkin pie) >>>
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> Okay, what do you see as the difference between a pie and a tart? Brekke, why wasn’t the tart as good as a pie?  Did you vary the filling?
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> I’ve struggled with this for years in trying to figure out whether to put various messages in the tart-msg file or one of the pie-msg files. I thought pies had top crusts, but tarts did not. However, this would mean than all those things called pumpkin pies in the stores and restaurants are actually pumpkin tarts, not pumpkin pies.
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> Perhaps I should just merge both together, but split them out by filling types. 
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> Thanks,
>   Stefan
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