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Article: APPLE PIE AN ENDURING NATIONAL TREAT.(Living Today)(Recipe)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1987
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Byline: Sheryl Julian Boston Globe
The phrase "as American as apple pie" is curious, since food historians have found apple pies in English cookbooks as early as the 14th century. The first American cooks who made them were clearly imitating their English ancestors.
But the right to claim apple pie as our own has been earned in the centuries since. We are a nation of remarkable pie bakers, of old-fashioned country cooks with rough hands, but a surprisingly delicate touch when it comes to forming dough. All around the country there are firm notions of what constitutes a desirable baking apple, what should spice or season a pie, how sweet it should be and ...