The Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays are the "BIG Memories of Pie" for me, so I thought it
would be FUN to share a little Trivia about Pies!
From Thomasnet
With fall finally in full swing, it’s time we take a moment to enjoy the nice brisk weather, pumpkin spice, apple cider, and everything fall has to offer. This includes those delectable dessert pies that are good enough to not be relegated to a single season.
But have you ever wondered how pies actually got to be a part of our little fall tradition? Why they’re so ingrained as a delicious fall dessert? Well, let’s take a quick look at pie history and see if it’s all it’s baked out to be.
The first pies can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt around 6000 B.C. where they were originally known as galettes. Most of the first pies were primarily filled with meat as opposed to pumpkin goodness, but this presented a starting point for the packed pastry. It wasn’t until about 1300 B.C. that fruits, nuts, honey, and other products were incorporated into primitive forms of the dessert. Pies as we know them today began to take shape after the tradition of galettes were carried down to the Greeks who eventually passed it down to the Romans. Romans then further spread the delight of pies to Europe around the 12th century and so the cycle of sharing pie continued!
It’s estimated that fruit became a bit more popular to stuff into a pie around the 1500’s. Pie then traveled its way along with other colonials to America in the 1600’s and 1700’s. Pies were continuously adapting and evolving to suit the needs of colonists and settlers alike. As time went on, pies became more and more synonymous with the sweet dessert treat we know today.
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