Where does Apple Pie come from? Is it America or England? or somewhere else?

Question

I always thought it was English.

Thanks for your answers...Good old fashioned English apple pie...yum.

Answer 1

It's a traditional English dish from the 14th century.
It was eaten in England before the UK was thought of ,so it is ENGLISH.

Answer 2

English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer. The 1381 recipe lists the ingredients as good apples, good spices, figs, raisins and pears. The cofyn of the recipe is a casing of pastry. Saffron is used for colouring the pie filling.

In the English colonies the apple pie had to wait for carefully planted pips, brought in barrels across the Atlantic, to become fruit-bearing apple trees, to be selected for their cooking qualities, as apples do not come true from seeds. In the meantime, the colonists were more likely to make their pies, or "pasties", of meat rather than of fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were available, was in cider. But there are American apple-pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the eighteenth century, and it has since become a very popular dessert.

Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the discovery of America, "as American as apple pie" is a common saying in the United States, meaning "typically American".[4] However, the expression (its full form being "As American as baseball/motherhood and apple pie"[citation needed]) is clearly metaphorical, rather than literally ascribing an American origin to apple pies, since apple pie predates the United States. To some, the saying expresses the feeling that the concept "America" is not just geographical, but is instead—along with baseball and apple pie—something wholesome.

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Answer 3

Although most certainly English in origin, the first mention of apply pie in America was in the 1697, when a distinguished alumnus of Harvard College, Samuel Sewell enjoyed "applypy" at a picnic on Hog Island.

Answer 4

it is unusual for Granny Smith to return out gentle. it could have been a pair of issues... a million. The products have been too small, to that end overcooked in the process the baking technique. 2. You did no longer vent the pie, inflicting all the moisture to stay interior. You vent a pie via reducing slits or poking holes interior the precise crust. 3. you have extra too many moist factors to the filling. because i don't be attentive to the recipe i can not fairly remark. in my view, my fashionable apple for pie is Courtland. they're tart adequate and particularly crisp. I lots want them to Granny Smith.

Answer 5

I think apple pie comes from apples.

Answer 6

I think apple pies where around in G.B, long before British and Europeans colonised America.

Answer 7

It comes from the Kroger Bakery ;-) 5.99 per pie!

Answer 8

Invented in England, perfected in America, thus its traditional symbol of American culture, leaving England to be symbolized by shepherd's pie or whatever.

Answer 9

of course its an english traditional dish...the americans would try to claim it as their own..but we know better!! lol!!

Answer 10

I believe it originally was made in Germany, and you will find a lot of German influence in baking in both the UK and the USA.