flapper pie

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Noun

flapper pie (countable and uncountable, plural flapper pies)

  1. A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).
    • 1978, Robert Kroetsch, What the Crow Said, The University of Alberta Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66:
      She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.
    • 2003, Robert Currie, Teaching Mr. Cutler, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 155:
      Maybe we ought to compare notes on a long day, have a coffee, maybe try some flapper pie.
    • 2009, Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky, Greystone Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30:
      Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.
    • 2015, Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg, The Scam (A Fox and O’Hare Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242:
      Come up sometime and I’ll treat you to poutine and some flapper pie.
    • 2016, Karlynn Johnston, Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky: A Modern Baker’s Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts, Appetite, →ISBN:
      Now, put on your apron, tie back your hair, and grab your mixing bowls: it’s time for some butter and brown sugar—let’s make us some flapper pie!
    • 2019, Lois Simmie, “Sammy’s Café”, in Finding My Way: A Memoir, Coteau Books, →ISBN, pages 108–109:
      People would come to the food booth at the Livelong Fair day and specifically ask for Mrs. Binns’s apple or flapper pies.

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