Pie crust over time
151 of the 179 recipes carry a publication date, from 2007 to 2026. Below: how many pages each year, whether the typical crust changed between the oldest and newest, and the oldest and newest pages themselves.
A date here is the one the page gives for itself: when it was published, or last updated. Sites often refresh an old recipe and its date together, so read these as when the pages went up, not when the recipes were created.
Recipes per year
Dated pages by the year they give. Shading marks the periods compared below.
How the typical crust changed
No ingredient shows a clear change between pie crust pages dated before 2021 and those dated 2021 or later. The medians move a little from period to period, but by no more than chance would with this many recipes.
| Per 100 g flour | Before 202177 recipes | 2021 and later74 recipes |
|---|---|---|
| FatNo clear change | 55% | 68% |
| WaterNo clear change | 29% | 32% |
| SaltNo clear change | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| SugarNo clear change | 2.7% | 1.3% |
Each cell is the median baker's percentage in that period: grams of the ingredient per 100 g of flour. Higher and lower compare the newest period with the oldest, only where the change is clear (see how below). Periods are cut at year boundaries so each holds about the same number of recipes.
Oldest and newest pages
Oldest dates
Jun 22, 2007
Pasta brisée · misya.infoOct 10, 2007
Pâte brisée simple · cuisineaz.comDec 23, 2007
All-Shortening Pie Crust · thepioneerwoman.comJul 14, 2008
Pâte brisée · ptitchef.comNov 28, 2008
Pâte à tarte recette tupperware · ptitchef.com
Newest dates
Jun 12, 2026
All Butter Pie Crust Recipe · maureenabood.comJun 10, 2026
Whole Wheat Pie Crust with Butter · farmhouseonboone.comJun 1, 2026
Homemade Pie Crust (All Butter Pie Crust) · theflavorbender.comMay 19, 2026
Double Pie Crust · theflavorbender.comApr 29, 2026
Pie Crust Recipe · acouplecooks.com
How the dates are read
Each date is the publication date in the recipe page's own structured data. 13 of the 179 recipes have none, or one without a year (such as “December 3”), and are left out.
15 more carry a date their site gave to many pages at once, which marks a site move or redesign rather than a publication: 2018-01-01 on tasteofhome.com (222 pages across Recipe Lab, 5 of them here), 2006-10-23 on marmiton.org (74 pages across Recipe Lab, 4 of them here) and 2004-01-01 on bettycrocker.com (21 pages across Recipe Lab, 1 of them here), and 5 more like it. They are left out too.
A change counts as clear when the newest period's median differs from the oldest period's by at least a tenth and a rank test puts the gap at 2.5 standard errors or more. For the share of recipes using an ingredient, the bar is 3 standard errors and 8 percentage points. Every ingredient is tested, so a lower bar would flag chance differences on most pages.
2026 is still in progress, so its bar is short for a reason that has nothing to do with baking.