Black bottom pie is a type of

pie A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts ( pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), swe ...

originating in the United States that features a layer of

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or pudding, the "black bottom," topped with whipped cream or

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. The single crust is pre-baked and of variable composition, but a

graham cracker crust Graham cracker crust is a style of pie crust made from crushed graham crackers. Graham crackers are a sweet American cracker made from unbleached, whole wheat graham flour. The crust is usually flavored and stiffened with butter or vegetable oi ...

is common.

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Black bottom pie is thought by some to be of

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origin, the "black bottom" representing the dark, swampy lowlands along the

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; other sources have identified an origin in Louisiana or Oklahoma City in the early 1940s. Its invention has been claimed by

Monroe Boston Strause Monroe Boston Strause was an American piemaker whose innovations included graham-cracker crust, chiffon pie, and black-bottom pie. He was a "pie celebrity" whose name was "a household word." Strause was born in 1900 in Los Angeles. In 1919 he wa ...

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. Strause, who was known as the "Pie King", was the inventor of the

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and the

.Perry, Charles.
The Pie King.
Los Angeles ''Times'' January 9, 1997. Retrieved July 9, 2015.

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