Why do Britishers INSIST that it was THEY that invented Apple Pie, and not America? America had cheap sugar available to the common man 70 years before the Britishers did.
That's because they were the first to put stewed apples in a pastry crust and bake it. It’s quite simple really, if there is a recipe for that from 1381 and America wasn’t discovered (by Europeans) until 1492 and didn’t have any apples until they were later introduced, there’s no way that an American recipe for apple pie could exist before then. So any arguments you have for American apple pies being earlier are irrelevant.
It didn’t have any refined cane sugar, but that doesn’t alter the fact that a pie is a baked dish of fruit or meat with a pastry case and the one from 1381 is apples encased in pastry and baked. You think it should contain refined sugar, and well, it’s nice that you have an opinion, but it’s wrong, but that’s not relevant to what a pie is anyway. Stuff baked in pastry is what a pie is, if that stuff is apple then it is apple pie. So there. Pffffffffftttttttt...
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Apple pie may originate in Britain, but it was made edible in the USA.
ReplyDeleteTotally correct. Lived in London for four years; British apple pies are very different, heavy crust and no cinnamon. The meat pies are much more tasty...
DeleteThat is correct, the U.S. was the first to bake the pie instead of boiling it.
DeleteAmericans adopted the apple pie far more than the Brits did. So, "as American as mom and apple pie" has zero all to do with who invented mom (the concept of "mom" actually pre-dates America ... and Britain for that matter) or who invented apple pie is irrelevant to the saying. I wish Brits would get over their inferiority complex.
ReplyDeleteThey will now be known as Freedom Pies.
ReplyDeleteApples, pears, figs, and raisins - sounds more like a fruit pie.
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