Editing Apple pie (section)

==In American culture==<!-- This section is linked from [[Cracker (food)]] -->
{{see also|List of American foods|Pie in American cuisine}}
[[File:Motherhood and apple pie.jpg|thumb|An apple pie is one of a number of American [[cultural icon]]s.]]

Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the [[English colonists|English]], the [[Dutch people|Dutch]], and the [[Swedes]] during the 17th and 18th centuries.{{cn|date=March 2023}} Two recipes for apple pie appear in America's first cookbook, ''[[American Cookery]]'' by Amelia Simmons, which was published in 1796.[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-americas-first-cookbook-says-about-our-country-its-cuisine-180967809/ What America's First Cookbook Says About Our Country and Its Cuisine]

The apple pie had to wait for the planting of European varieties, brought across the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], to become fruit-bearing apple trees, to be selected for their cooking qualities as there were no native apples except [[crabapple]]s, which yield very small and sour fruit.<ref name="app">{{cite web
|url= http://www.uga.edu/fruit/apple.html
|title= Origin, History of cultivation
|access-date=12 February 2013
|publisher=[[University of Georgia]]
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080121045236/http://www.uga.edu/fruit/apple.html
|quote=  The center of diversity of the genus Malus is the eastern Turkey, southwestern Russia region of Asia Minor. Apples were improved through selection over a period of thousands of years by early farmers. Alexander the Great is credited with finding dwarfed apples in Asia Minor in 300 BC; those he brought back to Greece may well have been the progenitors of dwarfing rootstocks. Apples were brought to North America with colonists in the 1600s, and the first apple orchard on this continent was said to be near Boston in 1625.<!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 21 January 2008}}</ref> In the meantime, the [[Colonial America|colonists]] were more likely to make their pies, or "[[Pasty|pasties]]", from meat, calling them [[coffins]] (meaning basket)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/19/155347648/five-facts-about-pie-that-might-surprise-you-and-a-survey|title=Five Facts About Pie That Might Surprise You, And A Survey|website=NPR|date=19 June 2012|last1=Fulton|first1=April}}</ref> rather than fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were available, was in [[cider]]. However, there are American apple pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the 18th century, and it has since become a very popular dessert.<ref name="Pinch">{{cite web |last1=D'Aiutolo |first1=Olivia |title=A Pinch of History: Amelia Simmons's Apple Pie |url=https://hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylvania/a-pinch-of-history-amelia-simmonss-apple-pie |website=Fondly, Pennsylvania |publisher=Historical Society of Pennsylvania |access-date=11 June 2018 |date=17 August 2015}}</ref> Apple varieties are usually propagated by [[grafting]], as clones, but in the New World, planting from seeds was more popular, which quickly led to the development of hundreds of new native varieties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usapple.org/consumers/all-about-apples/history-and-folklore/apples-in-america |title=Apples in America |access-date=2012-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028235409/http://www.usapple.org/consumers/all-about-apples/history-and-folklore/apples-in-america |archive-date=28 October 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref>

Apple pie was a common food in 18th-century [[Delaware]]. As noted by the New Sweden historian Dr. [[Israel Acrelius]] in a letter: "Apple pie is used throughout the whole year, and when fresh Apples are no longer to be had, dried ones are used. It is the evening meal of children."<ref>{{cite web|last=Stradley|first=Linda|title=Apple Pie - History of Apple Pie|url=http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/ApplePie.htm|work=What's Cooking America.net|access-date=2 July 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110610202255/http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/ApplePie.htm| archive-date= 10 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>

The mock apple pie, made from [[cracker (food)|crackers]], was probably invented for use aboard ships, as it was known to the British Royal Navy as early as 1812.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=The Naval Chronicle|date=1812|volume=28|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K085AQAAMAAJ&q=%22mock+apple%22|access-date=31 August 2016|title=The Naval Chronicle|last1=Clarke|first1=James Stanier|last2=Jones|first2=Stephen|last3=Jones|first3=John}}</ref> The earliest known published recipes for mock apple pie date from the antebellum period of the 1850s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bliss|title=Practical Cook Book: Containing Upwards of One Thousand Receipts...|date=1850|publisher=Lippincott, Grambo|page=[https://archive.org/details/practicalcookbo00blisgoog/page/n158 153]|url=https://archive.org/details/practicalcookbo00blisgoog|access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|journal=Godey's Magazine|date=1854|volume=48–49|page=378|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8hZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22mock+apple+pie%22|access-date=31 August 2016|title=Godey's Magazine|last1=Godey|first1=Louis Antoine|last2=Hale|first2=Sarah Josepha Buell}}</ref> In the 1930s, and for many years afterwards, [[Ritz Crackers]] promoted a recipe for mock apple pie using its product, along with sugar and various spices.<ref>{{cite web|first=Beth|last=Kracklauer  |url=http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/Putting-on-the-Ritz |title=Putting on the Ritz |publisher=Saveur.com |date=2008-02-28 |access-date=2013-11-05}}</ref>

Apple pie was one of the dishes that Rhode Island army officers ate for their [[Fourth of July]] celebrations during the [[Siege of Petersburg]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foodtimeline.org/july4th.html|title=Food Timeline--Fourth of July food history|website=www.foodtimeline.org}}</ref>

Although eaten in Europe since long before the [[European colonization of the Americas]], apple pie as used in the phrase "as American as apple pie" describes something as being "typically American".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/american-food-dishes/index.html|title=American food: The 50 greatest dishes|date=2017-07-12|work=CNN Travel|access-date=2018-11-05|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/as-american-as-apple-pie| title=Definition of "as American as apple pie"| journal= Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus| author=Cambridge University Press| year=2011}}</ref> In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol of American prosperity and national pride. A newspaper article published in 1902 declared that "No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished."<ref>{{cite web|title=Popular Apple Sayings|url=http://usapple.org/consumers/all-about-apples/history-and-folklore/popular-apple-sayings|publisher=U.S. Apple Association|access-date=2 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701035054/http://usapple.org/consumers/all-about-apples/history-and-folklore/popular-apple-sayings|archive-date=1 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie"—supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in [[World War II]], whenever journalists asked why they were going to war. Jack Holden and Frances Kay sang in their patriotic 1950 song "The Fiery Bear", creating contrast between this symbol of U.S. culture and the [[Russian bear]] of the [[Soviet Union]]:

:We love our baseball and apple pie
:We love our county fair
:We'll keep Old Glory waving high
:There's no place here for a bear

Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the commercial jingle "[[baseball]], [[hot dog]]s, apple pie and [[Chevrolet]]".

One out of five Americans surveyed (19%) prefer apple pie over all others, followed by pumpkin (13%)
and pecan (12%).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.piecouncil.org/pdf/Pie_Fun_Facts.pdf |title=Fun facts |website=piecouncil.org |access-date=7 November 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220225349/http://www.piecouncil.org/pdf/Pie_Fun_Facts.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The unincorporated community of [[Pie Town, New Mexico]], is named after apple pie.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pietown.com/ |title=Pie Town New Mexico |publisher=Pietown.com |access-date=2013-11-05}}</ref>