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Milk pie

Indonesian traditional pie

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ96742780
Source-derived summary

Milk pie or pie susu (Indonesian: pai susu, lit. 'milk pie') is an Indonesian custard tart pastry consisting of a shortcrust pastry filled with egg custard and condensed milk. This traditional Indonesian dessert pastry is very flat with only one very thin layer of custard. The origin of this pastry is from Bali.

Pie susu is a unique pastry, although the shape is similar to Portuguese pastel de nata.

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The public source identifies “Milk pie” as indonesian traditional pie. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Milk, Indonesian and traditional.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Milk, Indonesian and traditional providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Milk pie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.