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A Look at Pies Through History

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Origins of Pies in Ancient Greece

The first evidence we have of something that seems like a pie comes from ancient egypt. The combination of honey with nuts and fruits baked into a bread dough was popular. A lot of the pies that we're talking about here are kind of what we would call galets, so they're relatively free form. By the mediaeval period, what we might recognize as a meat pie was being made, called bake meat. These were normally pies that had an animal protein as the primary filling ingredients. And it's in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century that the word pie starts to appear in written language,. specifically referring to a savoury filling enclosed in a dough or pastry.

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