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sugar pie

British  

noun

  1. an open pie with a brown sugar filling

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

But you are going to want at least a slice of Irenia’s lovely ube brown sugar pie.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2017

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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