Dish · american
Apple Pie
Apple pie is sliced apples, sugar, and cinnamon baked inside a double crust of flour and fat, until the fruit softens and the crust turns golden and flaky.
Where it comes from
The pie came to America with European settlers who already baked fruit in pastry, and it turned into a national symbol less through any single origin than through decades of marketing after the fact.
What cooks argue about
The main fork is butter versus shortening in the crust: butter gives more flavor but is harder to keep cold and flaky, while shortening holds its structure better in the oven but tastes plainer.
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