[Sca-cooks] What is the difference between a pie and a tart?
Carol Smith
eskesmith at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 28 19:12:15 PST 2014
Thank you for the clarification, Bear.
Regards,
Brekke
> From: t.d.decker at att.net
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:18:34 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] What is the difference between a pie and a tart?
>
> Tarts are filled pastry dough without a top. Pies have a slightly broader
> definition being either open or completely sealed in dough. Thus a tart may
> be a pie, but a pie might not be a tart. However, the words tend to be used
> synonymously.
> In terms of word origin, tart appears to be the older in English entering
> Old English from Old High German, while pie seems to come into Middle
> English from Latin, possibly via French. I don't have my OED available to
> do a more thorough check.
>
> The argument is similar to the question of precisely what is krapfen, which
> varies regionally in Germany.
>
> Bear
>
>
> Brekke commented:
> <<< pumpkin tart (new this year, in lieu of pumpkin pie) >>>
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Perhaps I should just merge both together, but split them out by filling
> types.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
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