List of pies, tarts and flans explained

This is a list of pies, tarts and flans. A pie is a baked or fried dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is usually shortcrust pastry; the filling may be sweet or savory, though modern tarts are usually fruit-based, sometimes with custard. The croustade, crostata, galette, tarte tatin and turnovers are various types of pies and tarts. Flan, in Britain, is an open pastry or sponge case containing a sweet or savory filling. A typical flan of this sort is round, with shortcrust pastry.

Pies, tarts, flans and pastries

NameImagestyle=width:8emOriginTypeDescription
Aloo pieTrinidad and TobagoSavoryThis soft and fried pastry is a variant of the samosa, made from flour and water, and filled with boiled, spiced and mashed potatoes and other vegetables like green peas. Its shape is similar to a calzone, and it is usually larger than a samosa, approximately 5inches long.[1]
Apple crisp
Apple crumble
United StatesSweetA dessert consisting of baked apples topped with a crispy crust. Many different kinds of fruit can substituted for apples, and one of the most common variants is 'apple rhubarb crisp' including rhubarb. It is a simpler alternative to apple pie and apple cobbler.
Apple pieUnited Kingdom (England)SweetA fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is crisp and acidic cooking apples such as the Bramley or Granny Smith
Atlantic Beach pieNorth Carolina, USASweetA lemon curd pie with a saltine cracker crust topped with whipped cream[2] |-|Australian and New Zealand meat pie||Australia and New Zealand

Notes and References

  1. http://recipes.wuzzle.org/index.php/45/600 Aloo Pie (Trinidad)
  2. News: Laskey . Margaux . 2018-07-20 . A Pie to Cut Through Summer’s Heat . 2024-06-30 . . en-US . 0362-4331.