Where are the orange pies? Great question that wasn't answered...

Mostly because, after you peel an orange, you are left with what are really just sacs of fragile orange fruit. There's no there there, unlike a pear or a peach or apples, there's no fruit that can stand being cooked.

I add orange to my cranberry sauce but mostly it's just the juice.

Now, dried oranges...candied, that's another story ...most of that ends up in Fruitcake.

Joe(have a slice!)Nation

There's no way that fruit of the orange would hold up like it shows in the picture. Wrong texture. It's just not the right fruit to bake.

I make orange jello using orange juice instead of the water, add mandarin oranges. My family loves the really organgy taste of it - so refreshing.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/robert-e-lees-orange-pie/

Maybe it's a southern thing!

Joe's got it.

There are tons of recipes for orange meringue pie, but oranges (like lemon and lime) don't have the right texture for pie filling.

I figured as a whole, oranges are mostly water. Never heard of orange meringue. Never seen it at a bakery or on a restaurant menu. Can't be too popular... unless it's a Florida thing. Not surprised that it exists.

Orange meringue seems popular in the centre of the country and in other countries - I'm seeing it at websites/blogs like Country Living, The Iowa Housewife and at websites from Texas, New Zealand and England (BBC/Guardian etc).

wait ... also found in Mexican and Spanish cooking

the Brits and Spaniards tend to use Seville oranges for their meringue pies by the looks of it

this blog post from California is kind of neat

http://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/13/orange-pie-here-i-come-californias-sweetest-slice-of-sun/



for some people, orange meringue pie is pretty normal

here is a Greek Orange Pie - Portokalapita

http://www.cookingwithmarialoi.com/recipe/recipeview/Portokalopita-Orange-pie



(over 21,800,000 google hits on orange pie, it can't be that rare)


hunh - lots of recipes for Creamsicle Pie which are orange pies

http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2012/06/weekend-baking-project-creamsicle-pie.html


just no pie with chunks of cooked down oranges (or other citrus)

If I made this a question this post would get the red ribbon. Sorry ehBeth for that lack of insight. Great answer.

well, my man, you'll just have to ask it as a question so I can go for the ribbon!

Great answer Beth. I am drooling at the mouth just at the thought of a Creamsicle pie!

Thanks

The Greek Orange Pie is the one that has my attention. I'm going to check out Greektown here and see if anyone makes it.

That's what is sold here in bakeries as "Italian Orange Cake" ...


... while our 'normal' orange cakes look similar to this ...


... besides the orange tarts, you get in pâtisserie and confectionery shops and cafés ...

Walter, cake is a very different critter than pie. Especially in Canada and the U.S. We have cross-border fights about apple pie and sugar pie and ...

Believe me: I'm aware of the (and those) differences (Order an "Apfelkuchen" here or in Southern Germany or ... in Hamburg )