sugar pie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Takeout: Carillon Kitchen offers Christmas dinner to go featuring smoked pepper crusted prime rib, sugar pie pumpkin bisque, festive bean salad and more.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2021
Pecan pies are actually an example of a sugar pie because the filling is made with a supreme amount of corn syrup, plus butter, eggs, and white or brown sugar.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
During a time when pecans and other nuts were hard to come by, she made a sugar pie, combining eggs, sugar, flour or cornmeal, butter, and spices or citrus to cut the sweetness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2018
Some people make, and some people prefer a firm filling, but in that case, you really do just have sugar pie or pecan pie without the pecans, or, as I call them, butter tart wannabes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
Immense quantities of sugar extracted from the beet-root are manufactured on the continent and imported into these countries, and there is no reason whatever why Ireland should not have her finger in the sugar pie.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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