Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies: A Gracious Plenty of Pie Recipes (from Lemon Chess to Chocolate Pecan)”, 2010 was a cookbook of dessert pie recipes (book cover shown above).
Grape pie (#9) is popular in the western United States.
Strawberry pie (#16) is popular in the Midwest & southern United States.
Banana Cream pie (#3) is popular in the western United States including Hawaii & Alaska.
Razzle-Berry pie (#15) is a filling of apple, raspberry & blackberry that is popular in Utah & Nevada.
Apple pie (#1) is the most popular pie in New Hampshire & Illinois.
Apple Sauce pie (#2) is the most popular pie in Rhode Island & North Carolina.
Key Lime pie (#10) is the most popular pie in Florida & Georgia.
Peach pie (#12) is the most popular pie in Wyoming.
Cranberry pie (#8) is the most popular pie in Virginia & New England.
Coconut Cream (#7) is the most popular pie in Kansas & Arizona.
Pineapple pie (#14) is the most popular pie in North Dakota & Wisconsin.
Cherry pie (#6) is the most popular pie in Montana & New Mexico.
Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies: A Gracious Plenty of Pie Recipes (from Lemon Chess to Chocolate Pecan)”, 2010 was a cookbook of dessert pie recipes. In the photograph below I show a cherry, sweet potato and pecan pies. Pecan (nuts) and sweet potato (root vegetable) are commonly baked “sweet” pies; however, in this blog post I only discussed “fruit filling pies”.
Southern states are divided into two different culinary zones: 1. “Coastal South” and 2. “Kentucky Cluster”.
“Coastal South” is: 1 Louisiana, 2 Mississippi, 3 Alabama, 4 Georgia, 5 Florida, 6 South Carolina, 7 North Carolina, 8 Maryland.
“Kentucky Cluster” is: 1 Kentucky, 2 West Virginia, 3 Virginia, 4 Tennesse, 5 Missouri, 6 Illinois, 7 Indiana, 8 Ohio.
Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies”, 2010 is a fine collection of pie recipes of Southern states. Nancie McDermott, “Southern Cakes”, 2007 is an earlier cookbook of value.
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