All About Pies

We invite you to the largest showing of American pies ever presented between the covers of one book. You’ll find tested recipes for almost every pie you ever heard of, and for others so new they’ve never been made outside our Test Kitchens. We’ve also included pies so old-fashioned you’ve probably never seen written-down recipes for them—treasures of your heritage.

Pie is America’s top dessert. It appeared on New World tables almost from the start—long before the Stars and Stripes flew from a flagpole or the Fourth of July was an extraordinary day. The early pies had more crust than filling—thrifty ingenious pioneer wives stretched scarce ingredients in this way. But pies caught on at once, and each generation of women has widened the variety, improved quality and invented new recipes. Pie has kept in step with the times and new ingredients.