What type of pie is particularly associated with American Thanksgiving dinners?
Pumpkin pie touch. Today, throughout much of the United States, it is traditional to serve pumpkin pie after Thanksgiving dinner. Additionally, many modern companies produce seasonal pumpkin pie-flavored products such as candy, cheesecake, coffee, ice cream, french toast, waffles and pancakes, and many breweries produce a seasonal pumpkin ale or beer; these are generally not flavored with pumpkins, but rather pumpkin pie spices. Commercially made pumpkin pie mix is made from "Cucurbita pepo", "Cucurbita maxima", and "Cucurbita moschata" (Libbey Select uses the Select Dickinson Pumpkin variety of "C. moschata" for its canned pumpkins). Pumpkin pies were briefly discouraged from Thanksgiving dinners in
Pecan pie mentioned in American literature (and television) and is associated with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other special occasions; for example: Pecan pie is a staple of the Southern U.S., and is often used in literary context as a symbol of the South; for example: In his 2004 book, Ken Haedrich identified a number of popular pecan pie variants: Pecan pie Pecan pie is a pie of pecan nuts mixed with a filling of eggs, butter, and sugar (typically corn syrup). Variations may include white or brown sugar, sugar syrup, molasses, maple syrup, or honey. It is popularly served at holiday meals in