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Article: Many ways to slice apple pie; In the 1300s, the English ate apple pies without sugar. Now there's apple/plum pie, even apple/jalapeno pie!(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 22, 2005
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Byline: Joan Russell
There's an expression "as American as apple pie." But apple pie isn't really an American invention at all. Surprised? Recipes for apple pie were brought to America by early European settlers.
In England, apple pie recipes date back to at least 1381. These recipes used apples, spices, figs, raisins, and pears. Early English recipes for apple pie did not use sugar. Sugar was later imported into England from Egypt in the 14th century. It was not widely available and was very expensive.
But the English actually preferred their apple pies without sugar. Most of the pies they ate in the 1300s were made with meat. They were ...