Mom's Apple Pie

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suzyo says:

WOW ... MOM ROCKS!
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KBlood says:

Please consider adding to the This is America group!
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upthesock says:

“This is America”? I’ve never quite understood the “American as apple pie” thing? Apple pie isn’t American surely :-\
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tednmiki says:

gigantic! mom's apple pie is surely the best thing ever :)
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ch☺c☺kat says:

Wow, I wish I could bake as good as mom! ;D
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

I doubt apple pie is an American invention, but Michael Pollan, in his Botany of Desire does explain that most of the usable apple varieties are American.

Other thoughts?
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

upthesock says:

I don’t think apples are a native America fruit!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

misterbisson says:

Supposedly Apples don't come "true" from seed. That is, the seeds of an Apple produce new trees that are hugely different -- and often uneatable -- from their parent. Uneatable, of course, is a relative thing, and they still produce usable amounts of sugar.

Pollan's book describes apples being used only in the production of hard cider until sometime in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Apparently, the broad distribution of seeds planted to produce cider trees in the US created the diversity opportunity for a few trees with flavorful apples to mature. Those few trees have been propagated by grafting their branches onto new root-stock ever since.

All of this comes from Botany of Desire, a book I'd recommend to anybody even curious about this.
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upthesock says:

Apples have been eaten as a dessert for hundreds (probably thousands) of years, I know there are recopies for apple pie from as early as the 14th century.
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