Apple pie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the food. For other uses, see Apple pie (disambiguation). Apple pie Apple pie.jpg Apple pie with lattice upper crust Course dessert Main ingredients cooking apples, sugar Food energy (per 100 g serving) 265 kcal (1110 kJ) Cookbook:Apple pie Apple pie Tarte Tatin, a French variation on apple pie An apple pie is a fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apple. It is sometimes served with whipped cream or ice cream on top, or alon gside cheddar cheese. The pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making it a d ouble-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a circular shaped crust or a pa stry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a top crus t only, and open-face Tarte Tatin. Contents 1 Ingredients 2 The English pudding 2.1 Absence of sugar in early English recipe 2.2 Dutch style 2.3 Swedish style 3 In American culture 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Ingredients Cooking apples[1] (culinary apples), such as the Bramley, Empire, Northern Spy o r Granny Smith, are crisp and acidic. The fruit for the pie can be fresh, canned , or reconstituted from dried apples. This affects the final texture, and the le ngth of cooking time required; whether it has an effect on the flavour of the pi e is a matter of opinion. Dried or preserved apples were originally substituted only at times when fresh fruit was unavailable. Apple Pie is often served in the style of "à la Mode" (topped with ice cream). Alt ernatively, a piece of cheese (such as a sharp cheddar) is occasionally placed o n top of or alongside a slice of the finished pie.[2][3][4] The English pudding "For to Make Tartys in Applis", 18th-century print of a 14th-century recipe English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer. The 1381 recipe (see i llustration at right) lists the ingredients as good apples, good spices, figs, r aisins and pears. The cofyn of the recipe is a casing of pastry. Saffron is used for colouring the pie filling. In English speaking countries, apple pie is a dessert of enduring popularity, ea ten hot or cold, on its own or with ice cream, double cream, or custard. Absence of sugar in early English recipe Most modern recipes for apple pie require an ounce or two of sugar, but the earl iest recipe does not. There are two possible reasons. Sugarcane imported from Egypt was not widely available in 14th-century England, where it cost between one and two shillings per poundthis is roughly the equivale nt of US$100 per kg (about US$46 per pound) in today's prices.[5] Honey, which was many times cheaper, is also absent from the recipe, and the "go od spices" and saffron, all imported, were no less expensive and difficult to ob tain than refined sugar. Despite the expense, refined sugar did appear much more often in published recipes of the time than honey, suggesting that it was not c onsidered prohibitively expensive. With the exception of apples and pears, all t he ingredients in the filling probably had to be imported. And perhaps, as in so me modern "sugar-free" recipes, the juice of the pears was intended to sweeten t he pie. Dutch style Traditional Dutch apple pie comes in two varieties, a crumb (appelkruimeltaart) and a lattice (appeltaart) style pie, both recipes are distinct in that they typ ically call for flavourings such as cinnamon and lemon juice to be added and dif fer in texture, not taste.[6] Dutch apple pies may include ingredients such as r aisins and icing, in addition to ingredients such as apples and sugar, which the y have in common with other recipes.[7] Recipes for Dutch apple pie go back centuries. There exists a painting from the Dutch Golden Age, dated 1626, featuring such a pie. A recipe in a late medieval Dutch cook book 'Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen' (from around 1514)[8] is alm ost identical to modern recipes. The basis of Dutch apple pie is a crust on the bottom and around the edges. This is then filled with pieces or slices of apple, usually a crisp and mildly tart variety such as Goudreinet or Elstar. Cinnamon and sugar are generally mixed in with the apple filling. Atop the filling, strands of dough cover the pie in a la ttice holding the filling in place but keeping it visible or cover the pie with crumbs. It can be eaten warm or cold, sometimes with a dash of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. In the US, "Dutch apple pie" refers specifically to the apple pie style with a crumb, streusel, topping.[9] Swedish style The Swedish style apple pie is predominantly a variety of apple crumble, rather than a traditional pastry pie. Often breadcrumbs are used (wholly or partially) instead of flour, and sometimes rolled oats. It is usually flavoured with cinnam on and served with vanilla custard or ice cream. There is also a very popular ve rsion called äppelkaka (apple cake), which differs from the pie in that it is a sp onge cake baked with fresh apple pieces in it. In American culture See also: List of American foods An apple pie is one of a number of American cultural icons. Apple pie was brought to the English colonies by the British, Dutch, and Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries. In the English colonies, 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 t he crabapple which yield very small and intensely sour fruit with poor flavor.[1 0] In the meantime, the colonists were more likely to make their pies, or "pasti es", from meat rather than fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were av ailable, was in cider. However, there are American apple pie recipes, both manus cript and printed, from the 18th century, and it has since become a very popular dessert[citation needed]. Apple varieties are usually propagated by grafting, a s clones, but in the New World, planting from seeds was more popular, which quic kly led to the development of hundreds of new native varieties.[11] 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 wh ole year, and when fresh Apples are no longer to be had, dried ones are used. It is the evening meal of children."[12] A mock apple pie, made from crackers, was possibly invented by pioneers on the m ove during the 19th century who were bereft of apples. In the 1930s, and for man y years afterwards, Ritz Crackers promoted a recipe for mock apple pie using its product, along with sugar and various spices.[13] Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the European colonisation of the Americas, "as American as apple pie" is a saying in the United States, me aning "typically American".[14] In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol of American prosperity and national pride. A newspaper arti cle published in 1902 declared that "No pie-eating people can be permanently van quished."[15] The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pi e" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war.[16] Jack Holden and Frances Kay sa ng in their patriotic 1950 song The Fiery Bear, creating contrast between the po pular view of the U.S. culture and that 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". Today, modern American recipes for apple pie usually indicate a confection that is 9 inches in diameter in a fluted pie plate with an apple filling spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg. and lemon juice, and may or may not have a lattice or shapes c ut out of the top for decoration.[17] The unincorporated community of Pie Town, New Mexico is named in honour of the apple pie.[18] See also Portal icon Food portal Apfelstrudel (apple strudel), an Austrian pie-like dish made with dough, app les, sugar and spices. Apple cake Apple cobbler List of apple dishes List of pies, tarts and flans Tarte Tatin, a French variant on apple pie. References "Cooking apple". The Free Dictionary By Farlex. Retrieved 2012-06-14. "An apple pie without the cheese". 2012 Apartment Therapy. Retrieved 2012-06-14. "Apple Pie". OChef. Retrieved 2012-04-07. "Product Highlight: Apple Pie, Sharp Cheddar, and A Nice Cup of Coffee". Hunger Mountain Coop. Retrieved 2012-04-07. 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