Cola Pie

Cola Pie is a type of Kamerian pie made using cola syrup and enjoyed nationwide. It is often made using Cola Syrup that would have otherwise been mixed with carbonated water for drinking purposes. It can also frequently be found on the snacks menu of Kamerian Soda Fountains, sold by street food vendors, and found in the bakery section of grocery stores. When foreigners are asked about Kamerian cuisine, cola pie is often one of the very first foods to be mentioned as a standout. Even more so by those who get a chance to taste the counterintuitively named dessert.

Description

Kamerian cola pie is a pie with a crumb cake-like consistency. The primary ingredients of the filling are cola syrup, flour, brown sugar, and butter. Butter, flour and brown sugar are mixed together to form crumbs, then added to the cola syrup mixture to add texture and flavor complexity. Cola pie is best served warm. Whipped cream or vanilla ice cream are optional but popular additions.

It comes in two different versions: wet-bottom and dry-bottom. Dry bottom has a consistent, cake-like consistency throughout the pie. While wet bottom has a wetter, more custard like consistency towards the bottom that also features a heavier cola flavor.

Fifelandic Cola Pie

In territories that haven't normalized the home soda fountain, a variety of cola pie known (perjoratively in Kameria) as "Fifeland style" cola pie can be found. Which is simply a pie filled with a gelatin made from cola, flour and pats of butter floating atop before baking. This variety will often be served in restuaruants far from Kameria as an "authentic" Kamerian dessert. Thus, the derision from Kamerian nationals.

However, even the most die hard detractors will admit that the Fifeland style of Cola Pie has the advantage in cost and preparation time.

History

Main article: Origin Stories of Cola Pie
A number of origin stories exist for the Cola Pie; all of them Apocryphal. They range from a story about the mother of a poor family improvising to make sure her child had sweets on their birthday, to the product of a rivalry between a pastry chef and a soda fountain owner.

Five different culinary establishments claim to have invented the pie, the most egregious of which being a bake shop near Unity International Airport in Stampa (which exists in a district of Stampa that was built decades after Cola Pie became popular). However, the first verifiable written record of the pastry is listed as a recipe in a general purpose cookbook published in E4 496. In there, it's listed as "Cola Syrup Thrifty Cake".

Recipes

Kamerian Style Cola Pie

A recipe found in Kameria in Your Kitchen; a cookbook sold in the gift shop at The Shattered Stein in Flusserdorf City.
Ingredients:
9 inch Unbaked Pie Shell
For syrup:
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
1 cup Cola Syrup
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/3 cup Boiling Water
2/3 cup Cold Water

For crumbs:
2 cups Flour
2/3 cups Brown Sugar
1/3 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 cup Butter

Instructions:
-Stir the egg into the sugar.
-Add the Cola Syrup
-Dissolve the Baking Soda in the boiling water
-Add the cold water
-Combine with the sugar and egg mixture
-Pour into unbaked pie shell
-Mix all crumb ingredients together until consistency is crumbly (but sandy or both is okay too)
-Incorporate 2/3 of crumbs into cola syrup mixture. Allow remaining 1/3 to sit on top.
-Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake an additional 50 minutes.

Fifelandic Style Cola Pie

A recipe found on the Fifeland based website Wunderkochen.com, translated to Albish language and Imperial Units.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
9 inch Unbaked Pie Shell
2 tablespoons Butter, sliced
2 cups Cola, flat

Instructions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
-Sprinkle the sugar and flour into the crust, alternating between the two of them in layers.
-Top with the slices of butter evenly
-Pour in flat cola
-Bake for 60 to 70 minutes til center is like custard and not runny

Out-of-Universe Credits

Fifelandic Style Cola Pie recipe adapted from a Water Pie recipe found on Food.com https://www.food.com/recipe/water-pie-363832
Kamerian Style Cola Pie recipe adapted from Cooking with the Horse & Buggy People II, ISBN:978-1-89-005062-7

A slice of Kamerian Style cola pie, after being reheated in the microwave.

Item type

Consumable, Food / Drink

Creation Date

Highly debated. First known record in E4 496