Vinegar pie

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Vinegar pie is a Great Depression-era 'desperation' (make-do) pie — 'the creative cook's fruit-free answer to lemon meringue pie,' with vinegar supplying the tartness (food folklorist Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, via NPR's The Salt) — matching stored vinegar and Depression-era origin_note.

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• Work type: dish
• Category: desserts

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• https://www.ksut.org/2012-07-05/in-lean-times-creative-bakers-turn-to-desperation-pies (verification source · master store)

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Vinegar pie is a Great Depression-era 'desperation' (make-do) pie — 'the creative cook's fruit-free answer to lemon meringue pie,' with vinegar supplying the tartness (food folklorist Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, via NPR's The Salt) — matching stored vinegar and Depression-era origin_note.

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