Mince pie is a staple Christmas snack in England, consisting of a crumbly pastry shell filled with dried fruits and spices often called mincemeat. Originally, the pies contained both sweet and savory ingredients such as ground meat, lard, and cheese.
Aussie Word of the Week The phrase, which has been around since the s, metaphorically refers to a person whose narrow view of the world is given away by the fact that they eat nothing but meat pies.
So, in short, a cheesecake is a pie. Objectively, pies are just way better than what a cake could ever be.
Cake is not nearly as dynamic. You can have flaky crusts or crumbly crumb crusts. You can have gooey fruit fillings or silky cream fillings or rich, dense custard fillings. One of the key ingredients in cheesecake is marscapone cheese. A cake can be defined as food formed into a flat round shape which is typically baked or fried. So a cheesecake is flat, round, baked and contains cheese hence the name cheesecake. They say sticky toffee pudding is the most popular dessert in the world.
A New York Cheesecake is the larger, richer and more indulgent cousin of the traditional cheesecake. This cheesecake steps it up a notch with even more cream cheese and the addition of cream or a few extra egg yolks to create an ultra-rich, creamy and larger than life cheesecake.
The main difference between what we would consider typical New York American cheesecake and Italian cheesecake is that in Italy, cheesecake is made with ricotta rather than cream cheese. Sugar during the 14th century was available, but was very scarce and extremely expensive. This cookbook was originally compiled about A. According to historians, this is one of the first records of the modern apple pie. Tak gode Applys and gode Spryeis and Figys and reyfons and Perys and wan they are wel ybrayed co-lourd wyth Safron wel and do yt in a cofyn and do yt forth to bake well.
A cookbook from the mid 16th century that also includes some account of domestic life, cookery and feasts in Tudor days, called A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye declarynge what maner of meates be beste in season, for al times in the yere, and how they ought to be dressed, and serued at the table, bothe for fleshe dayes, and fyshe dayes , has a recipe for an apple pie.
NOTE: The following spelling and wording are quoted directly from the book :. To make pyes of grene apples — Take your apples and pare them cleane and core them as ye wyll a Quince, then make youre coffyn after this maner, take a lyttle fayre water and half a dyche of butter and a little Saffron, and sette all this upon a chafyngdyshe tyll it be hoate then temper your flower with this sayd licuor, and the whyte of two egges and also make yourcoffyn and ceason your apples with Sinemone,Gynger and Suger ynoughe.
Then putte them into your coffin and laye halfe a dyshe of butter above them and so close your coffin, and so bake them. The pilgrims, who founded Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived around 13 years later, in When the first English colonists arrived in America, the crab apple was the only indigenous tree of the Malus genus they could find. The Europeans found the crab apple to be a far cry from the apples they had eaten back home.
Crab apples are smaller than Manus domestica , and they are generally too sour to eat. However, during colonial times, the first European explorers didn't eat apples. Instead, they needed apples to make cider The solution was to bring apples from Europe in the form of tree cuttings and seeds. Initially, pollination was a problem, and the trees in North America struggled to bear fruit. The introduction of European honey bees solved this problem, and colonists started growing their own domesticated apples.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, settlers populated their lands with apple trees to ensure a steady supply of apples for making cider. Planting apple trees also allowed settlers to meet the requirements for preserving a land claim, including mandated land improvements. During the s, apple pie variations such as apple pudding and Marlborough pudding became popular.
In , Amelia Simmons included recipes for apple pie, buttered apple pie, and Marlborough pudding in her cookbook, " American Cookery. At the end of the 18th century, settlers who owned land in the Northwest Territory had difficulty transporting apple tree seedlings to their farms. John Chapman — Johnny Appleseed — solved this problem by planting apple trees in favorable soil near areas where the government granted land claims.
Chapman started his business near the end of the 18th century and planted so many apple trees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana that he earned his nickname.
By , America had 14, apple varieties! When the U. Civil War broke out in , apple pie was the pastry of choice among both Confederate and Union soldiers. The dish was affordable and easy to prepare, especially if troops managed to find ingredients in farmers' homes. In , World War I broke out, and, for the first time, there was a prominent association between apple pie, American patriotism, and liberty.
When the war broke out, the Boston Daily Globe wrote that a soldier's craving for pie while abroad was a "hunger for democracy. During World War II , apple pie solidified its status as a symbol for home One of those recipes — Victory Apple Pie — remains extremely popular to this day. Apple pie also had a symbolic significance during the Cold War. In a world that is growing increasingly health-conscious, you might expect pie sales to have declined. However, according to recent figures, this hasn't been the case.
Every year, grocery stores in the United States sell around million pies. Apple pie is American because it represents how cultures from all over the world can join together to create something new and altogether wonderful. As John Lehndorff of the American Pie Council explained to Food52 , "When you say that something is 'as American as apple pie,' what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience.
By Meghan Overdeep November 22,
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