Food Nutrition Facts

Pies

A pie is composed of a baked pastry shell that covers some sweet ingredient like fruits, nuts, creams, chocolate, custard and savory ingredients like fish, meat etc.
Pies are ‘filled’ according where the stuffing is covered by the pastry shell. Pies are either ‘top crusted’ or ‘two layers crusted’ where the stuffing in placed accordingly.
In case of top crusting, the stuffing is covered by potato or other vegetables and the final layer is give by the batter before it is placed for baking.
The two layers crusted pies are composed of the filling where it is completely covered by the pastry shell.
Pies can be traced back to 2000 BC. In a cook book of mid-1545, a recipe was retrieved that somewhat resembles like a pie. The recipe was baked flour with some meat pieces in it. It was then called ‘Coffins’ or ‘Coffyns’. In the previous years, top-crust pastry was named as ‘Traps’. It was composed of an assortment of meats and sauce section and was baked more similar to a modern casserole without having a pan.

Benefits of eating Pies

Good to taste
It gives the desired nutritional value according to the ingredients.

Risk

There is as such no risk taking Pies.

Suggestion

Being a baked food, Pies are a healthy food.
You can try making pies with different filling.

Recommended daily allowance

Depending upon your calorie requirement, 20% of the carbohydrate can come from Pies. In that case, you can take 1 standard sized pie a day.