Pie Dough

The cooking method of baking pastry-wrapped ingredients that we now call pies dates back thousands of years. There exists evidence of pie preparations by the ancient Egyptians, and the first written pie recipe is found in the Roman cooking text Apccus from the 1st century AD. Pie crust has traditionally served several less-evident functions than do the pie crusts of today. One of the main early functions of pie dough was the preservation of food. By baking meat in a pie crust,