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Chris -- 2018-04-11
They don’t usually go into pie, but they could. Examples:
Greek Islands / Smyrna Dinner Menu
Fresh baked eggplant with tomato, onion, light garlic, parsley, and special tomato sauce, topped with pie nuts.
greekislandsnashville.com/menudnnr.html
Hummus Covered with Lamb: pureed chick peas topped with lamb and pie nuts. $6.95.
www.allmenus.com/menus/157840
For my main coarse I had the trout which was sprinkled with hazel and pie nuts. Odd combination but great texture…
www.yelp.com/biz/roebling-tea-room-brooklyn
My mother made a wonderful torte dessert with a lot of raisins and pie nuts.
www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article … _SPECIAL27
It was quite different in taste compared to the risotto I normally have, because it had, I think, pie nuts and sultanas. Quite interesting combination …
www.eatability.com.au/au/sydney/lido/
This dish had al dente spaghetti, blended with olive oil, pie nuts, black juicy olives, garlic, white wine and fresh fish pieces.
www.eatingwa.com.au/restaurants/lambretta/
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There are “pie beans”—from the blind-baking process, in which you line an uncooked pie crust w/ foil and fill w/ beans; the beans would weight the crust down as you baked it empty (or “blind”) so that you had a baked crust to fill with will a filling not meant to be baked very long or at all.
In the beginning, most cooks used legumes; since the baking process would render them unable to be cooked the normal way, many cooks would keep them in a jar to use again later (I labeled my jar of them “pie beans,” and I’m sure I’m not the only one who used that term).
Then, of course, commerce got involved, and metal or ceramic ones were created.
http://i37.tinypic.com/2r41z40.jpg
Sometimes these are called “pie beaDs” (usually when they’re metal balls on a chain; but sometimes when they are the ceramic ones as well)
So, that might fuel this.
Also, the idea that a pine tree has nuts that you actually EAT is a weird concept—I remember being totally floored by the idea that someone could harvest that many of them from that many pine trees.
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