Apple Pie: History worth eating
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The saying “American as Apple Pie” is a classic one that harkens back to American culture, to the days of home-baked pies and gingham picnic blankets. But apples, of course, are much older than the United States, and the humble pie has a history much longer than the nation.
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My neurotic mother-in-law came over for Thanksgiving one year with her nervous, neurotic little dog, who promptly took a dump on the kitchen floor. My stepson quipped in a dry deadpan fashion, "most folks just bring pie". 😁
😂
Wonderful!
That must have been priceless to witness!!! 😂
@@rogergoodman8665 , yeah, I had to turn away and stifle my laughter for the sake of maintaining my MIL'S decorum, what little of it exists. In hindsight, it would have been even better if that nervous animal had been my MIL's last dog ---- but this occurred years ago and she has ruined 3 more dogs since then. She'll tell us all the time that we don't treat our animals right ---- nobody knows more about dogs than she does, you see ---- but our dogs are calm, relaxed and well-behaved whether at home or out and about amongst a crowd of strangers, while her dog can't be left home alone or it will bark for hours and annoy her nrighbors. I have to dog-sit when my wife takes her mom shopping every week.....the current dog is also old, grossly overweight, and in lousy health due to an indulgent diet, but the dog's owner is elderly and in poor health as well, and it's a toss-up as to which one will kick the bucket first. My wife is hoping her mom goes first so the dog can be re-homed to someone sane! We have three much bigger dogs of our own and we're not gonna take in a dog that won't fit in as a stable pack member.....
@@goodun2974
Boundaries! Always boundaries!
“Apple pie is as American as apple pie.” 🧠🤯
The history of history is history worth remembering.
I remember pies 12 cents and 7cent Twinkies!
I was always told that John Chapman (Appleseed) didn't plant apple trees as food for settlers moving west, but as drink in the form as hard cider, because settlers had no access to alcohol.
The trees were used for both food and drink. But, as apples are extreme heterozygotes, the odds of an eating apple were relatively small, while virtually any apple can be turned into cider.
Today we can turn apple cider into apple cider vinegar; that has many good health affects.
Regards
I heard he used them to mark territory, and stake climes on vast amounts of property...but I don't recall where I heard that.
Johnny Appleseed was an American Dionysius.
Thank you, History Guy, for "showing up" and being real. Hoping you are now in a better space. 😊
Ah, one thing about being a boomer is remembering when Hostess Apple pies were just the best and cost a quarter or so. It was so American
I was more partial to their blueberry pies, but, yes, I remember those days... =^[.]^=
So is developing type 2 diabetes from eating Hostess apple pie loaded with processed sugar. I'm a younger American who eats healthy. Processed sugar causes inflammation, feeds cancer etc... Try going on the keto diet, you'll probably live longer.
I recall when they were a dime.
@@Raycheetah: I like the little pies that Wal Mart sells including apple. Always buy some for the road.
..those and blueberry & cherry pies.. used'ta nick a quarter out of my dad's till..because he never counted the change..to buy a Hostess pie at the general store across the street in Fort Lee, NJ...
That’s really cool he seems to actually give a hoot about getting people hooked up with help for mental health
Yeah, I was sorry to hear he's been through a divorce, as so many of us have 😢 I'm glad he got help 😊
"Its crust is not broken if a wagon wheel runs over it."
Sounds like one of my attempts at a pie crust.
. . . or my first attempts at making sour-dough bread, the first loaf of which I gave to my sister, whom literally shellacked it and used it for a door stop.
Sounds like they needed Robin Hood flour 😂
@@WarHawk-
Fabulous!
I know you don't do culinary history specifically but I think the origin of pumpkin and pecan pie is worth getting into
Townsends does a lot of food history and cooking from 18th century cook books.
@@bartsanders1553was also going to recommend Townsends for their wonderful food (and living) history.
I saw pumpkin spice donuts at the convenience store today.
We're also under a heat advisory today, which makes it seem a bit early for Fall merchandise.
@@Primalxbeast primalxbeast pecan and pumpkin pies are seen as particularly american and so share that in common with apples
Some of our pie fillings are literally "out of our gourds"! 😁🤣 ( I like pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie, but I absolutely love pecan pie).
Apple Pie is 3.14 times better than apples by themselves.
A slice of Apple Pie is $2.50 in Jamaica, $2.75 in Aruba, and $3.00 in the Bahamas.
Those are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
Nerd 😉😀
Maybe a nerd, but definitely a Dad (joke) 👍🤣
I normally love puns, but that one was a real groaner...
LMAO
Extremely vital information! 👍🏻😁
Ardent bakers swear by lard, not vegetable oil/shortening, as the crucial ingredient for a good pie crust. My wife doesn't use lard but has a recipe she found which includes *cheese* in the crust, and it's really good, especially with tart, slightly acidic fillings like apples or fruit.
I’ve never made a crust with cheese, but I swear that lard makes the best pie crust.
@@lefty-bw1zp , You should be able to find the same or similar recipe to my wife's online because that's where she got it. I was skeptical at first but it's really good, especially with apple pie.
McDonald's had the best fries when they used beef tallow instead of veg oil
This was fun! I'd love to see a team up between you and Max at Tasting History!
Or that one of the biggest songs in our history has a chorus that goes “bye, bye miss American pie.”
"Drove my Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry. Those good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing..."
Mrs. History Guy is no longer on the team. So sorry to hear that Lance.
thank you for your candidness regarding your personal issues. i, too, like many others, struggled during/after the divorce i went through. it ain't easy, brother, and, i hear you. take care, HG - love from canada
I'm in Indianapolis and am amazed at how many times Indiana is mentioned in your history stories.
I think he made a video a while back where he said something about living in Indiana or Ohio. I'm not sure how long he's been living there but he mentioned in a different video that he grew up in South Dakota. It's a nice state and all but not very much to do besides visiting Mount Rushmore and the annual get together in the town of Sturgis, at least for the people who are into motorcycles. 🙂
Now I want an apple pie after this video....
Me too, and I want the history of custard😋
Pecan
Love me some Hot apple pie with a glass of cold milk
No…hot apple pie, some vanilla ice cream, and a slice of cheddar cheese.
@@Nicksonian, My wife makes pie crust with cheddar cheese in the crust from summer recipes that she found online. It's really quite good; Apple pie, however, is not my favorite and I'd rather have pecan or some kind of berry pie. Or pumpkin, or sweet potato....
I love this man's content. His voice reminds me of the greats I grew up listening to on P.B.S. and "Sunday Morning" he looks very familiar but can't quite figure out if I know him from somewhere else....
Cruel to put so many pictures of apple pie. Now I want one.
When I was a cross country truck driver, I would stop at a Truck Stop in the evening for a cup of coffee and pie. Other drivers would stop and ask the Waitress what pies they had. She would list them and likely as not they would order Apple Pie. If I worked there and asked what pie we had I would just say Apple and stop there.
I'm a driver also and I do enjoy Apple pie and coffee also . I do think that's a gift from God to us knuckle busters cab over
@@iralee7145 If I never drive another Cab Over it will be too soon. Been driving since 1979. Took a 13 year break to work at a golf/ski resort. Went back on the road and was DELIGHTED with the new Freightliner’s! I was in heaven with all the room… give me my short nose Fruit Shaker!
As an onstage intro to his song "How Bad's the Coffee? (How Good's the Pie?)" John Hiatt would ask the audience "whatever happened to pie in America? It used to be that every diner and restaurant had really great pie but most of them had lousy coffee; now you can find great coffee pretty much anywhere but the pie is almost always lousy". He also invariably dedicated the song to "every waitress that ever called me Hon".
Thank you, THG; not just for the pie
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My Dad was from Lancashire in Northern England, and he liked a piece of cheese with apple pie.
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
Thanks for getting the Bicentennial Chevrolet ad slogan in there.... baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and Chevrolet!!!.....
In 1943 the Americans brought apple pie and ice cream to Australia for Christmas, it was a novelty that made the day.
:)
You absolutely need to do an episode with Townsend!
Being a New Englander, Connecticut specifically, I believe that the tastiest apples are grown here. We get a lot of west coast apples throughout the year, but they don't compare to good old New England apples. Those pies look delicious, and I can't wait for the new crop to come in.
Thank you, History Guy. I work for an apple co-op in Pennsylvania and enjoyed this history. I'll be sharing this at work on Monday!
I remember my grandmother making apple pie and I am 79. The pie crust was the best I have ever had & don't even get me started on her lemon meringue pie.
Tell us about her lemon meringue pie!
My mom had fantastic recipe for lemon meringue pie. Goodness was it awesome!
in Australia, the rumour regarding the McDonalds apple pie was that it contained minimal apples; the bulk of the apple pie filling was supposed to come from chokos/chayotes, which are supposed to take on the flavour of whatever they're cooked with.
Watching the history guy and apple pie go together!
HI, Great history lesson as always
Your comment at the 17 min mark reminds me of a old tv advertisement in Australia that was used here and not so obviously at the time "borrowed" from its corporate HQ in US
Football, meat pies, kangaroos and holden cars
You inspire me to bake! Mom made great apple pie. I have made some over the years but none for a decade or more. In “retirement” I work in a garden center to keep busy and we have a produce stand with local apples and peaches. As the local peach season is drawing to a close, a peach pie will be first, and then an apple as that season hits high gear.
I read somewhere that apple pies were such an important staple of life in early America, that people got sick of them. Hence this poem:
I loathe, abhor, detest, despise,
Abominate dried-apple pies.
I like good bread, I like good meat,
Or anything that's fit to eat;
But of all poor grub beneath the skies,
The poorest is dried apple pies.
Give me the toothache, or sore eyes,
But don't give me dried apple pies.
The farmer takes his gnarliest fruit,
'Tis wormy, bitter, and hard, to boot;
He leaves the hulls to make us cough,
And don't take half the peeling off.
Then on a dirty cord 'tis strung
And in a garret window hung,
And there it serves as roost for flies,
Until it's made up into pies.
Tread on my corns, or tell me lies,
But don't pass me dried-apple pies.
Brucelawson3226: Sounds like nobody in his household knew how to make a good apple pie.
Fabulous! 😁👍🏻😘🇨🇦
This is (dimly) familiar to me. Anyone know who wrote it? Was it Dickens?
Hot apple pie and ice cream , yummy , that's my favourite. And I'm Australian.
Sorry to hear you got divorced.
Thank you.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel, In America we deal with divorce about as well as we deal with death and dying in the family. We pretty much suck at both because we shy away from having honest but uncomfortable conversations about such subjects beforehand, and then we are completely lost for words, and have no coping skills, when we're in the middle of it.
Also, McDonald’s fried apple pies were awesome. About 20 years ago they replaced them with a more “realistic” baked apple pies. The fried ones were better.
Try Popeyes fried apple pies. They're probably closer to the old McDonald's ones than the new ones are to the old.
16:25 *I sure do miss those McDonald's fried apple pies. Fortunately I can still get them at Whataburger, and Whataburgers are plentiful here in Central Texas*
Thanks!
Thank you!
All this talk about apple pie and no mention of cinnamon? Yes, it's hard to say and spell, makes me a little angry. There is no apple pie without whatever that other word was.
Check out the 7:00 minute mark, he mentions cimannon, or sinomin. 😮
Great episode!
What a great video. I’ve always appreciated all of your videos! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
12:00 Max Miller from Tasting History actually made the confederate Mock Apple pie a few weeks ago. He was shocked to find out that it does actually taste like apple pie. He said the texture is definitely different, more similar to pumpkin pie, but it was quite good.
Something to do with the acetic acid in the vinegar. Glen & Friends here on UA-cam has done Mock Apple pie too. Also “depression pies” from the 1930s that are basically flour and water with a bit of vinegar and sugar but curiously do taste of “apple.” My parents used to make Mock Apple pie from the box of Ritz crackers in the sixties.
My grandma made a mock apple pie made from vinegar and crackers that was insanely good and disturbingly apple pie flavored.
About the only full size pie that is presently known in the UK is apple. Other fruits are usually only used in tarts. More known for their meat pies, which are very popular in former British territories. The big varieties of pies in the USA obviously came from immigrants from other countries.
Thank you for sharing your own therapy journey. I also struggled during my own divorce and a good therapist gave me the tools I needed to survive.
Honesty like yours will hopefully encourage others to seek help when they need it. As I have told people, when my furnace quits working I might be able to fix it on my own but call a professional. Similarly when my mind went haywire, I also called a professional.
Oh. And another excellent episode. Pie is a fabulous thing. I make a decent rhubarb and black currant pie and am going to start learning how to make savory pies.
"When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream." - Homaro Cantu. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏🍦🍦
I was raised off of apple pie and apple butter. My grandparents made it a lot. On special occasions we had pie with ice cream. Most of the time, we had it with milk
My Swedish/German Granny made an apple pie with raisins soaked in rum. When I asked her what she did with the leftover rum she just smiled at me and gave me another slice... 😋
The McDonald’s Apple pies in the 90’s and early 2000’s smacked. They changed recipe and they never been the same.
And now I finally know the empirical reason as to why the British empire crumbled.😂
I'm in Washington State & Oregon has nothing on us. Especially when WA is the #1 producer of apples in the US & Canada. I though prefer a good huckleberry (the absolute best!) , cherry, or blueberry pie over apple. Pie is great. And my dad preferred it over cake so my sister made 29 different pies for his 75th birthday. Nothing was left over.
Great episode HG!
Tom Lehrer says "American as apple pie" in his song "National Brotherhood Week." Funny song. Should be on YT.
"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." - Jane Austen. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
One of my favorite graphics is of a “pie chart” of actual pie with a quarter cut out of it.
It says, “Pie I have eaten. Pie I have not yet eaten.
YT won’t let me post it of course.
(Sung to the tune of “If You Love Me Let Me Go”)
If you love me make me pie,
If you don’t then say goodbye.
I can’t face another minute,
Of a day without Pie in it.
Take away those chains, that keep you from making Pie!
Apple pie, steak and kidney pie, pork pie, chicken and mushroom pie. - all good for us Brits. if you can stick it in a pie we'll eat it.
Oh yes yum yum Abe a pasties
4 & 20 blackbirds, baked in a pie? 🤢🤮
"... four and twenty black birds, baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing, Oh was that not a dainty dish, to set before the king?"
Now I wish I could have one more of my grandmother's fried apple pies! Thirty years has been a long time, but I can still taste them! Thanks for the memories, Professor Geiger!!!
Ahh, the mock apple pie, because if there's one thing I can't stand in my apple pie, it's apples!
Before cheap refrigeration, apples were not easy to obtain in climates (e.g. the Deep South) I'll suited to the trees. Now they are everywhere, but of such miserable, tasteless cultivars that they are little better than mere filler/carrier for the spices, which are the only decent flavors in such monstrosities.
My granma grew up in the Appalachians, born in the late 1800's. She always dried apples and made dried apple pies ; )
Well I say----Apple pie should only be eaten on days that end in "y."
15:25 people will look for anything to fight, argue and fuss about. No matter how stupid.
In good times, that’s possible-for fun.
Food can be intensely tribal, perhaps even political. As examples, try looking up the history of Gumbo, or Paella, and you'll find a lot of people yelling at each other over what ingredients and techniques can or cannot, should or should not, be used in a certain dish; and that it's not really the "True" version of that dish if you do it this other way with these other wrong ingredients. Of course, the reality is that when people migrate they like to recreate, to the best of their ability, their classic foods from the region they came from, and they may be forced to approximate it with different, locally obtainable ingredients. This type of adaptation makes far more sense to me than importing food ingredients from hundreds or thousands of miles away; but some people invest far too much of their personal identity into the habits, culture and customs of their birthplace. It's tribalism, and it drives people apart rather than bringing them together.
“No great man was ever fond of pie.”-Kate masterson
“(Snickering)”-me a century plus later at such phrasing.
Caramel Apple Pie with crumb topping is my fav to make.
I was surprised how many recipes mentioned lemon juice ...I thought that was Top Secret...
I'm actually glad your video didn't mention apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese on top, which I believe is a _very_ regional specialty best known in Vermont and Wisconsin (most people match apple pie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream).
I've always kind of assumed the saying to be a reference to how we took something from someplace else and made our own unique thing, something we Americans do quite often.
My mom's apple pie is one of the greatest taste treats I have ever experienced!
As a kid, I loved my Mom's homemade apple sauce and apple butter, especially when still warm off the stove.
Ironically I baked one this very afternoon. The box said Sara Lee. Was quite good with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Sorry to hear about you and the Mrs History Guy. As for pie, I'm partial to cherry and pumpkin.
Was it recent or a previous divorce? I was quite curious about that as well.
I used to have a poster of a blueprint for an apple pie. The recipe was in the specs box... I miss it!
Apple pie and custard. Can't beat it.
Apple pie with ice cream is even better.
Yum! No American can resist a good pie!!... I personally have eaten some form of pie at least once a week my entire life. I enjoy most fillings with apple, cherry and blueberry being my favorite fruit pies and I love beef and chicken pot pies as well. Long live the PIE!!!
I am curious if the inedible crust became edible at the time of the addition of salt.
Delightful retrospective... made me wish we some apple pie and vanilla ice cream here at the house.
And more philately... thanks for that.
I rarely see you this animated about topics that you speak about, clearly you have a certain affinity for apple pie. Me too.
Went and got an apple to eat while listening!
"You are the apple of my pie." - Unknown. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
Tim Walz must be an Apple Pie eater 🥧 - All American 🇺🇸
This is getting off topic, but if you actually research that DUI convict rather than merely swallowing CCP, oops CNN but they are much the same, propaganda, you will find he is a liar, fond of stolen Valor and avoiding sacrifice, a staunch Communist, and a friend of jihadi terrorists. Folksy, perhaps, but un-American and more than a bit evil.
Watching late with a fine strawberry cheese pie and dunkel
Oooooo the history of Garage Sales might be an interesting topic
Good morning! 👋🏽 😊
"I'm just really passionate about apple pie." - Dov Davidoff. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
I make a great crumb topped apple pie.
Certainly there could’ve been a pirate story worked in here? Warm apple pie with ice cream will sooth my disappointment, lol.
Pie ala mode is a great dessert, but apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar cheese on top is amazingly delicious.
Don't all good stories involve pie-rates?
@@tygrkhat4087, My wife makes pie crust that has cheddar cheese in it and uses it on other pies besides apple. Surprisingly good , and she found the recipe online somewhere.
"I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast." - Rachel Nichols. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
Humble pie- I see what you did there 😊
That was fun, thank you! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍
A companion expression - "Greatest invention since sliced bread" Before sliced bread, what was the comparison used? Or was there anything available to be used as a comparison, so such an expression never existed before sliced bread came to be? Hmmm.
Sliced Bread and the Second World War
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Who can forget, Mrs. Lovett's meat pies?
Humorous tautological ending 😂
My father loves Apple Pie, I personally, having lived in Texas during my childhood and good part of my youth, I'm a loyal pecan pie eater. The same goes for pecan ice cream.
I heard there was pie.
Sam... *_SAM!_*_ Don't forget the _*_pie!_*
Did someone say pie?
"I could make apple pie every single day." - Julia Michaels. 😋❤️🥧🍎🍏
Apples are so a-peel-ing. 🤣
In South Africa, tinstead of "hot dogs, baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet," the commercial jingle says, "briar plates, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet."
I think you've been autocorrected. Briar plates? Surely braaivleis.
@@paulqueripel3493Thanks, I'm sure you're right.
and with Autumn headed our way, the season for baking this is a great show full of humor and coziness. Sadly it takes till about Thanksgiving before we see a break in the heat down here in Texas, at least in the Galveston area where I live. Let's go Autumn! Baking and pies await.
My favorite pie is cherry, but my x and her mother both made the most excellent apple pie🧀
Well this morning I’m going to get my Tastykake Apple Pie!