Pie

Pie is a small dish of yeast dough with a filling that is baked (in the oven ) or fried (in deep fryers , small pots or boilers) ^[1] . The name is derived from the word pie .

Pie is a dish of East Slavic cuisine. There are a great many different recipes for pies. The differences relate to dough (usually yeast ) and toppings (with cabbage, potatoes, onions and eggs, with different berries, with porridges, with fish, meat, mushrooms, with cottage cheese, apples or pears, with liver, etc.) .d).

Cakes are also often and mistakenly called pastries from other types of dough. In particular, Tatar and Uzbek samsa and Karelian gates ^[1] , and sometimes dumplings, are often mistakenly called pies.

A round and open pie on top, with only the edges plucked, is called a cheesecake . This type of cake mainly contains cottage cheese ^[2] .

In 1956, Matsuo Kokado (owner of the Parnas confectionery in Osaka and an activist of the Japan-USSR Society) began to produce and sell stuffed pies in Japan - which were advertised as a Russian dish for the Japanese. A short time later, a certain Hazuo Tomita announced that he personally invented and patented a culinary product called "pies", presented a patent obtained in Tokyo and demanded a deduction of monetary reward for each sold pie. In the future, a trial took place, which lasted several years. To confirm that the pies have been known since at least the time of Ivan the Terrible , over 600 people were called and interviewed as witnesses during the trial (including the chef of the USSR Embassy in Japan and the correspondent of Pravda in Tokyo, I. A. Latyshev , who earlier confirmed to the representative of Tomit that the Russian dish “pie” and “pies” are not the same thing), attracted a large number of reference publications (including a specially made notarized extract from the 33rd volume of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia ) ^{[ 3]} .