An apple pie is a pie in which the principal filling is apples. Apple pie is often served with whipped cream, ice cream ("apple pie à la mode"), custard, or cheddar cheese. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling; the upper crust may be solid or latticed (woven of crosswise strips). The bottom crust may be baked separately ("blind") to prevent it from getting soggy. Tarte Tatin is baked with the crust on top but served with it on the bottom.
Originating in the 14th century in England, apple pie recipes are now a standard part of cuisines in many countries where apples grow. Apple pies are an unofficial symbol of the United States and one of its signature comfort foods
Ingredients
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A wide variety of apples can be used to make apple pie. Braeburn, Gala, Cortland, Bramley, Empire, Northern Spy, Granny Smith, and McIntosh are among of the more well-liked cooking apples. The pie's fruit can be made from dried apples, canned fruit, or fresh fruit. Originally, dried or preserved apples were exclusively used in situations where fresh fruit was not accessible. The filling's primary components are butter, sugar, cornstarch for thickening, and lemon juice for acidity. When macerating the filling, spices are added, most frequently cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice, to stop the apples from oxidizing. In many classic recipes, honey is used instead of the then-pricey sugar.
serving
Apple pie is often served à la mode, that is, topped with ice cream.
In another serving style, a piece of sharp cheddar cheese is placed on top of or alongside a slice of the finished pie. Apple pie with cheddar is popular in the American Midwest and New England, particularly in Vermont, where it is considered the state dish.In the north of England, Cheddar or Wensleydale cheese is often used.
Nutrition
A commercially prepared apple pie is 52% water, 34% carbohydrates, 2% protein, and 11% fat (table). A 100-gram serving supplies 237 calories and 13% of the US recommended daily value of sodium, with no other micronutrients in significant content (table).
English style
The Forme of Cury, a recipe collection from the 14th century, calls for pears, raisins, figs, excellent apples, and spices in a comfy, or pastry shell. The filling is colored with saffron.
In addition to the more conventional dome-shaped pie crust, lattice pastry styles date back to the 17th century. In contemporary English variations, butter or lard shortcrust pastry is placed on top of thick layers of sweetened slices of apple, usually Bramley, which are piled into a dome shape to prevent a sagging middle. The apple filling is then baked until it is done.
Apple pie, which can be eaten hot or cold, with ice cream, double cream, or custard, is a common dessert in English-speaking nations and is frequently regarded as a comfort food.
In American culture
Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the English, the Dutch, and the Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries. Two recipes for apple pie appear in America's first cookbook, American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons, which was published in 1796. What America's First Cookbook Says About Our Country and Its Cuisine
The apple pie had to wait for the planting of European varieties, brought across the Atlantic, to become fruit-bearing apple trees, to be selected for their cooking qualities, as there were no native apples except crabapples, which yield very small and sour fruit. In the meantime, the colonists were more likely to make their pies, or "pasties," from meat, calling them coffins (meaning basket) rather than fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were available, was in cider. However, there are American apple pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the 18th century, and it has since become a very popular dessert. Apple varieties are usually propagated by grafting, as clones, but in the New World, planting from seeds was more popular, which quickly led to the development of hundreds of new native varieties.
Apple pie was a common food in 18th-century Delaware. As noted by the New Sweden historian Dr. Israel Acrelius in a letter: "Apple pie is used throughout the whole year, and when fresh Apples are no longer to be had, dried ones are used. It is the evening meal of children."
The mock apple pie, made from crackers, was probably invented for use aboard ships, as it was known to the British Royal Navy as early as 1812. The earliest known published recipes for mock apple pie date from the antebellum period of the 1850s. In the 1930s, and for many years afterward, Ritz Crackers promoted a recipe for mock apple pie using its product, along with sugar and various spices.
Apple pie was one of the dishes that Rhode Island army officers ate for their Fourth of July celebrations during the Siege of Petersburg.
Although eaten in Europe since long before the European colonization of the Americas, apple pie as used in the phrase "as American as apple pie," describes something as being "typically American." In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol of American prosperity and national pride. A newspaper article published in 1902 declared that "No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished."The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie"—supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war. Jack Holden and Frances Kay sang in their patriotic 1950 song "The Fiery Bear," creating a contrast between this symbol of U.S. culture and the Russian bear of the Soviet Union:
- We love our baseball and apple pie
- We love our county fair
- We'll keep Old Glory waving high
- There's no place here for a bear.
Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the commercial jingle "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.".
One out of five Americans surveyed (19%) prefer apple pie over all others, followed by pumpkin (13%) and pecan (12%).
The unincorporated community of Pie Town, New Mexico, is named after apple pie.
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