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What's Your Favorite New England Dessert?

Posted by Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle , January 12, 2009 23:36

Roadfooders favorite New England dessert? In the recent Roadfood.com poll, Boston Cream Pie, invented at Boston’s Parker House Hotel (where Ho Chi Minh was once a baker!) came out on top, followed by strawberry shortcake (remember, in New England that is properly made with a fresh biscuit, not cake). Funny how there are three pies in the poll and only one of them is really a pie. Why are the other two called pies?

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1/13/2009 8:40:25 AM #

Pre-coffee and squinting eyes... That close-up photo of the Boston cream pie looks very much like a whoopie pie with different fillings. They are very similar with the black & white cookie a distant relative.
They both fit one definition of pie by virtue that there is a flour based bottom and top, along with a filling, and some pies with a top crust are glazed. Put those together and it is a pie.
Does this make fudge covered Oreos a pie?

mark

doggydaddy |

1/13/2009 11:21:51 AM #

Very true! The distance between a Boston cream pie and a whoopie pie is not as great as it first appears. Moon Pie, too.

Bruce Bilmes and Sue Boyle |

1/13/2009 4:13:24 PM #

Not that anyone asked, but I personally believe that blueberry pie, made with Maine's wild blueberries is the best "dessert" on the planet.

It may not be what some would call "New England Dessert", but it is one of two things that draw my wife and I to the Northeast at least twice or three times a year.

Oh, and the other 'thing' is fresh-caught Maine lobster - thermidor style.