Sunday, September 30, 2012

What are Galettes, Pies and Tarts???


Vegetable & Gruyere Cheese Galette

Galette - a flat, round of free form crusty cake. It is frequently garnished with egg, meat, fish, cheese, cut vegetables, apple, slices, berries, or similar ingredients
 
 
 
 
 
Assorted Fruit Pies & Chiffon Pies
 
Pie - a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and topped with a pastry crust or whipped cream

 


           
 
Types of Pies
 
Chiffon - Made with a cooked-fruit or cream filling base that is stabilized by the addition of gelatin. A meringue is folded in to give the filling a light, airy texture. Crust is pre-baked 
Lemon Chiffon Pie


Cream Pie - Cream fillings flavored by pastry cream. Pre-cooked filling topped with meringue or whipped cream. Crust is Mealy or pre-baked
Banana Cream Pie


Custard and Soft Pie - Custard fillings are dairy based and Soft fillings are syrup based.
Crust is mealy, prebaked or unbaked

Pumpkin Pie
 
 
Fruit Pie - Fruit fillings consist of fresh, canned, frozen, or dried fruit mixed with sweeteners, spices and starches. Three methods of preparing fruit fillings are cooked-juice, cooked-fruit and juice or homestyle. Crust is short or long flake, double crust or lattice style crust
Apple Pie with Lattice Crust


Speciality Pie - Includes fillings that do not fit into any other classification of pies. Specialty pies are usually made of ice cream, mousses, or Bavarian creams. Crust are mealy, prebaked or cookie crumb
Turtle Pie

Tarts - is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry. The pastry is ususally short flake dough, the filling may be sweet or savory, although usually fruit based, sometimes with custard. Tartlet refer to a miniature tart.

Assortment of Tarts & Tartlets

 
Linzertorte - is a traditional Austrian tart made with a hazelnut crust. Made with hazelnut, cinnamon and clove short dough and raspberry filling. Finished with lattice crust and is often assembled in a cake ring. 
 

 

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