Pie has woven its way into our food culture, becoming a symbol of home, tradition and plenty. Pies are the ultimate home-baked treat: The smell of a freshly baked pie cooling on the windowsill is etched in the memory of many of us over a certain age. A pie is a baked dish made with pastry dough casing, filing with various sweet or savoury ingredients. While the world history of pie stretches all the way back to ancient Egypt, today I'm; providing the History of pie in North America. Early settlers adapted their native pie traditions to their new homeland. The new countryside offered a rich array of filling, not just fruits and berries but vegetables and game, they discovered with the help of the #indigenouspeople. In addition to pies being a delicious treat, settlers also had a practical reason for making them. Pies used less flour than bread and could be quickly baked. They provided a sustainable food source that could be rationed out easily to hungry immigrants. Pie continued to sustain the early settler as they moved west. Once pioneers found land to claim as their own, their pies began to reflect the regional differences. Our indigenous peoples taught the new settlers how to extract sap from maple trees (our maple pecan butter tarts with cranberries) and what plentiful berries cops were suitable for baking like the blueberry and saskatoon berries. (our blueberry- saskatoon pie) So as we launch into our Truly Western Season #calgarystamped what food could be more #stampedefood than #pie. When thinking food this #Stampedeseason think @piejunkie. Truly the official dessert of Western Canada and the Calgary Stampede. https://www.instagram.com/p/BziqPp6Be0n/?igshid=y0ofq4rjt9jn
