Where does apple pie originate from?!


Question: AMERICA


Answers: AMERICA

mom's house

england

from the oven.

new england

apples

The origin of most customs and foods in America can be traced to Europe. The same is true of American Apple Pie - it is not really American at all! Fourteenth century English often enjoyed meat pies. Fruits such as apples were substituted in traditional meat pies and served as dessert. Apple pie was a favorite dessert during the reign of Elizabeth I. During the mid 1600s, Oliver Cromwell banned many pleasures throughout the Commonwealth, including pie. Fortunately under the reign of King Charles II in 1660 England enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle, as the King allowed them many pleasures previously denied by Cromwell, among them pie.

I loooooooove apple pie! Its gotta have cool whip OR vanilla ice cream on top of it though!

The UK

American as apple pie?

Sad to say, even though we like the image, the origins of pie are not especially American. In fact, when you stop to think about it, there’s nothing about apple pie that’s so American that it deserves the status of an emblem. But British?
Yes, because the crust (wheat flour and lard) were intrinsically English, as were the apples, butter, and even bread crumb thickeners. And the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg came from the far flung British Empire to enrich the affluent British pantry. Indeed, the pie form itself was an English specialty, and unrivaled in other European cuisines. One has only to look in the early English cookbooks to see the large numbers of pie recipes—both sweet and savory—that fill the pages. Hannah Glasse’s cookbook (London, 1747) listed forty-three!

Recipes for apple pie (along with apples!) were brought to America by early European settlers. These recipes date back to Medieval times. Here is a sample from English cooking text circa 1381:

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