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Article: ALL-AMERICAN APPLE PIE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 9, 1987
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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 which fat should be worked into the flour for maximum
flakiness.
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