Nancie McDermott, “Southern Pies: A Gracious Plenty of Pie Recipes (from Lemon Chess to Chocolate Pecan)”, 2010.

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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).

For some people it’s “cake” and others it’s “fruit pie”; but, I am an “ice cream” dessert person.

The choice is “cake”, “fruit pie” and “ice cream”; however, “fruit pie ala mode” allows you to combine ice cream and fruit pie (shown in the photograph above).

Southern “pie ala mode” is for me the ultimate dessert choice; and, having been said I present a listing of “fruit pie fillings” shown in the table below. The numbers are ranking of pie filling; but, alphabetical order to shown the fruit pie fillings popular in the United States.

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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