tomato pie

Noun

tomato pie (countable and uncountable, plural tomato pies)

1. (dated) pizza
   • The "pomidore pizza", or tomato pie, is made in this fashion. Take a lump of dough, and, under a roller, flatten it out until it is only an inch thick. On this scatter tomatoes and season plentifully with powdered red pepper.1903 December 6, “Do firey foods cause firey natures?”, in New-York Tribune
   • Once upon a time, almost all pizza — then a word unknown to the general American public outside Italian enclaves — was called tomato pie in the United States. In the 1930s, English-language newspapers featured job listings for tomato pie bakers and advertisements for tomato pie ovens, sometimes...2023 October 6, Mari Uyehara, “The Many Lives of Tomato Pie”, in The New York Times
2. (regional) In some Italian-American and Italian-Canadian communities, any of a number of variations of pizza consisting only or largely of dough and tomato sauce.
   • In Philadelphia, tomato pie is a springy, square flatbread slathered with tomato sauce and comparable to the Sicilian sfincione.2023 October 6, Mari Uyehara, “The Many Lives of Tomato Pie”, in The New York Times
3. (regional) A savory summer pie from the American South, containing tomatoes topped with grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise or a white sauce.