Editing Pie (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Redressed birds - Jan Brueghel I & Peter Paul Rubens - Taste (Museo del Prado) (cropped).jpg|thumb|A detail of a painting by [[Jan Brueghel the Elder]] (1568–1625) and [[Peter Paul Rubens]] (1577–1640) depicting several bird pies. Cooked birds were frequently placed by European royal cooks on top of a large pie to identify its contents.<ref name="WCA" />]]

The first known use of the word 'pie' appears in 1303 in the expense accounts of the [[Bolton Priory]] in [[Yorkshire]]. However, the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] is uncertain to its origin and says 'no further related word is known outside English'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Clarkson |first=Janet |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302078670 |title=Pie : a global history |date=2009 |publisher=Reaktion |isbn=978-1-86189-425-0 |location=London |oclc=302078670}}</ref> A possible origin is that the word 'pie' is connected with a word used in farming to indicate 'a collection of things made into a heap', for example a heap of potatoes covered with earth.<ref name=":0" /> 

One source of the word "pie" may be the [[magpie]], a "bird known for collecting odds and ends in its nest"; the connection could be that Medieval pies also contained many different animal meats, including chickens, crows, pigeons and rabbits.<ref name="Gross" /> One 1450 recipe for "grete pyes" that might support the "magpie" etymology contained what Charles Perry called "odds and ends", including: "...beef, beef suet, capons, hens, both mallard and teal ducks, rabbits, woodcocks and large birds such as herons and storks, plus beef marrow, hard-cooked egg yolks, dates, raisins and prunes."<ref name="Perry" />