Puh! Butter Pie…

Who other than an ignornant, coronary-ily challenged hillbilly would ever think to eat something as absurd as a “butter pie”? Why our dairy fat-obsessed cousins the French, that’s who. In fact they almost certainly invented the butter pie, which probably explains why the “butter tart” is such a popular sweetmeat in Canada. Only the French don’t call their versions “butter pies”. Rather, they focus on the nut component where naming is concerned. “Walnut tart”, or “traditional walnut tart”, is what it’s called. Why “traditional”? Because that’s what you call a French pie that has half a pound of butter in it (filling and crust combined). An American pie that contains that much fat is a heart attack on a doily, but a French walnut tart…that there’s what you call traditional.

Oopsy, did I just write that? I seem to be in a rather sarcastic frame of mind this morning. Forgive me, little Joan Pastry is teething and I was up most of the night. A little more coffee should put me to rights…