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Apple Pie Fun Facts

The first apple pie recipe was printed over 630 years ago in England in 1381. The list of ingredients included good apples, good spices, figs, raisins, pears, saffron, and cofyn (a type of pastry crust).

Early English apple pies had no sugar because sugar was very expensive. Sweet fruits, like figs, were added instead.

 Early American apple pies had a “take-off” crust. First, the apples were baked in the crust. Then the top crust was lifted off and sugar and spices were added. The top crust was put back on and the pie was served.

Settlers of the American West made “mock apple pie” since they didn’t have apples yet. They used crackers and special spices instead and thought it tasted like real apple pie. Some people still make mock apple pie today.

While the apple pie existed well before the Pilgrims landed on the eastern shores of what is now The United States, Americans wax poetic about how American apple pie is.  The phrase “as American as apple pie” has been used since the early 1900s.