flapper pie

plural flapper pies

1. countableuncountableA vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).

   Come up sometime and I’ll treat you to poutine and some flapper pie.

   2015, Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg, The Scam (A Fox and O’Hare Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242

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   She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.

   1978, Robert Kroetsch, What the Crow Said, The University of Alberta Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66

   Maybe we ought to compare notes on a long day, have a coffee, maybe try some flapper pie.

   2003, Robert Currie, Teaching Mr. Cutler, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 155

   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.

   2009, Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky, Greystone Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30

   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!

   2016, Karlynn Johnston, Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky: A Modern Baker’s Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts, Appetite, →ISBN

   People would come to the food booth at the Livelong Fair day and specifically ask for Mrs. Binns’s apple or flapper pies.

   2019, Lois Simmie, “Sammy’s Café”, in Finding My Way: A Memoir, Coteau Books, →ISBN, pages 108–109