Posted on 12/01/2022 5:47:45 AM PST by Red Badger
NATIONAL PIE DAY
Each year on December 1st, dessert lovers across the United States enjoy a slice of their favorite on National Pie Day. Pie is so delicious we celebrate it twice a year. The more popular date is January 23rd.
#NationalPieDay
While it might be the lesser of the two celebrated PIE days (don’t forget National Pi Day on March 14th), it happens to fall smack dab in the middle of a major pie-making season.
Take away ice cream as a dessert choice, and most people are either cake people or pie people. Or, to put it another way, most people have cake or pie with their ice cream! The day combines our bumper fruit crops with a booming holiday season full of baked goods, cool weather, and rosy-cheeked children. It’s definitely time to tie on those apron strings and get baking.
Of course, we make more than fruit pies! Savory pot pies provide comfort on a cold winter’s day and the satisfaction a family cook needs when caring for a family.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PIE DAY
Bake up your favorite pie or enjoy some leftover slices from the holidays. Visit the National Day Calendar® Recipe pages to discover some delicious pie-making.
We also offer some others, too. When it comes to pie, or any food really, it is best enjoyed with others. Invite someone over for your best pie and coffee. Maybe there’s a friend you haven’t seen for a while. Pie starts conversations, and they’re a great way to #CelebrateEveryDay too!
Recipe links at site:
Pecan Pie
Blueberry Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Use #NationalPieDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL PIE DAY HISTORY
National Day Calendar ® continues researching the origins of the 2nd Pie Day.
Pie FAQ
Q. Can I serve pie all year long?
A. Yes! Pie is one of those dishes that can be served any time of year.
Q. Do I have to slice a pie in wedges, or can I treat it like a pizza and slice it in squares?
A. Slicing a pie into wedges allows you to serve every element of the pie in equal portions. And it’s not a pizza.
Q. How many pie days are in December?
A. We celebrate two pie days in December: National Pie Day and National Pumpkin Pie Day.
Q. Should a pie be served hot or cold?
A. Most pies are best served warm. However, some exceptions remain.
I’m 67 and have never eaten rhubarb.........................
gosh I freek over coconut cream
Punkin or apple and ice cream.
omg!!!
Me too, but my wife can’t stand coconut for some reason................
I too am a from scratch pie baker. Do you use leaf lard in your crust (the 3/3/3 combo - 1/3 butter, 1/3 crisco, 1/3 leaf lard)?
Sometimes you add strawberries, you always add sugar.
I add tapioca
I’ve never even seen rhubarb for sale in the grocery stores here...................
I ask for coconut cream pie for my birthday :P
look in winter
I love Maine. My best friend's grandmother had a farm up in Sedgewick, ME, right on a tidal flat. We could go out on her property, wade into the muck with a hod (to put the clams in) and collect as many big, fat clams as you wanted. Of course, there were the ever present green-head flies and black flies, so once your hands and arms were covered with black tidal muck, they would come in for the kill. You then faced the choice of letting them bite you, or covering yourself with muck by slapping at them.
It was an easy choice. You were already covered with smelly black tidal mud, what is a little more? Plus we picked them by hand, so no matter how careful you were, you almost always would slice a digit, and get bright red blood mingling with the black mud. And having a bad back, there was no way for me to avoid getting back pain.
But the clams, when you steamed them, were glorious. So it was absolutely, 100% worth it!
I created this logo (containing all the elements above) and put it on shirts for those of us who actually picked the clams: 
That night, it was so rural, we would actually go out and lay in the middle of the road and look at the stars. There was an enormous meadow, perhaps 750 yards across, covered with low vegetation, and at the far end, near a rural road, was a gigantic, dilapadated barn, caving slowly in on itself over the years, and in the mooonlight, presented a ghostly silhouette.
But on more than one magical night, that entire massive meadow was just covered with what seemed like million of fireflies, slowly blinking on and off.
The next morning, we would go out and pick blueberries all around the farm, and have blueberry pancakes!
Well, his grandmother passed on at the age of 90 something. The old farm, whose timbers were so soft you could push your fingers in them, was torn down. Her old wood burning stove that filled a good portion of her kitchen was sold off to some collector. From my late teenage years, I went up there many times with my best friend. I was family...they were family. We are going now, as we all do. God, how I loved going up there.
But I will always have that memory of that place. Lying in the middle of the road, looking at the stars, and those fireflies. The fireflies.
Heh, I use Crisco, flour, salt, and water. 2/3 cup cold Crisco to 2 cup flour, and one teaspoon of salt (for one pie, top and bottom crusts). Add seven tablespoons of ice water, a few more if humidity is really low, mix and cut the dough up in a scissoring motion with two butter knives, knead them into a ball, cut the ball in half, and roll them out.
I have always wanted to use lard instead of Crisco, because I have heard it is absolutely delicious, but my wife draws the line at lard with the dessert already filled with butter and sugar. I’ll concede to her on that...:)
Winter?🤷♀️
What is that?.................
Oh! You mean that time of year when we put on socks!...........okay!...…🤦♂️
Pi day is March 14
I’ve seen snow in Orlando, but yeah it’s a w winter thing
There’s a lot of snow in Miami.......................
Moody’s cafe has great blueberry pie
Effa crisco use pork lard
True
But it doesn’t melt...................right away..............😉
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