What’s the difference between tarts and pies?
Whether you’ve got it in your head that a pie might just be a giant tart—or is a tart just a fancy, snazzed-up pie?—here’s a few ways to see beyond the crust. Considering how to make chocolate tart ? Get to know the difference between pie and tart first. What is a pie? Pie is a baked dish featuring a fruit filling encased in dough, which is called a pie crust once baked. Pie doughs can be made into a double-crust (filling is fully encased), single-crust (open top, with a single blind-baked bottom crust), or somewhere in between (fancy lattice-top crust). Pie recipes can be savory or sweet. Basically, if something tastes good outside of a pie, it probably tastes really good inside one (think, apples in classic apple pie , to mixed berries and roasted butternut squash). Be sure to keep moisture content in mind, especially with meat-based preparations: no one likes soggy, undercooked crust, which is exactly what you’ll get if you bake raw meat. Brown it...