Unlike many other fruits, apples are stored for a long time, which means that the apple pie can be baked not only in the apple season, it can be baked and laid on the table all year round.
In Russia in late August, every year in the peasant Orthodox churches are worship services - believers call this holiday, the apple Savior. People believe that from this day on, you can eat a new crop of apples, people take them to church and consecrate them. At home on the apple tree, believing people set the table, with various dishes and certainly not without apple pies.
The world's largest apple pie was cooked in the UK in the city of Chewitts Farm. The chef Glyn Christian led the process. The pie weighed 13 tons 66 kilograms, and the height was 12 meters, width 7 meters, weighed 13 tons 66 kg pie. The cake was made 2 days, from August 25 to 27 in 1982.
Perhaps the most popular of all, various apple pies is charlotte. It is prepared with layers of apples, biscuits or baked dough. This dish appeared in the city of France, originally charlotte consisted of white bread or liqueur or fruit and sweet cream. Previously, the preparation of charlottes was difficult and long. But over time, the charlotte recipe has become much simpler, now it can be easily baked at home.
In our time, there are several versions of the origin of the charlotte. The main one is that the idea of preparing charlottes was first served by Antoine Carem, who was in the service of Tsar Alexander I. According to another version, the charlotte was named after the English Queen Charlotte, who was the wife of King George III , and she was very fond of apples. But less popular is the romantic version of the love of the poor cook to the girl Charlotte. Therefore, it is believed that the enamored cook named his cake after her.
Apple pie cooked with caramel syrup and inverted is called a taten. The invention of this pie belongs to the sisters Caroline and Stephanie named Taten. From the father in the inheritance they received a hotel. The sisters were engaged in farming, cooked themselves in the kitchen, continued to take and take care of the guests. But one day, one of the women in a hurry mixed up the sequence of actions, putting the bottom of the mold for baking apples. When she noticed this her mistake, she decided to add the dough from above and then put the cake into the oven. Taking out the finished pie from the mold, the woman simply turned it over and gave it upside down - upwards with apples. Then in those days, baked pies with stuffed, closed dough, so the real furor produced the resulting inverted treat. However, there is another version: a cat that ran past, turned over and dropped the apple pie, which was cooked according to a traditional recipe. This unpleasant and nasty incident prompted these enterprising sisters to such an idea of making a delicious unusual pie. It also became known that this was happening in France in the seventies of the nineteenth century in the town of Lamotte-Bevron, not far from Orleans.
In Germany, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as well as in Ukraine and in Moldova is widely distributed and very fond apple strudel. This popular confectionery product needs to be prepared from a dough with apple stuffing, it is often served with delicious berry gravy. Yeast, for the preparation of dough is not required at all, so it does not stale for a long time and this is a very big advantage of this product for owners who own confectionery benches. In Vienna, one of the pastry shops decorates the wall with a poster on which it is written that everyone who dreams of an aspen waist should eat apple strudel as often as possible. Steady positions apple strudel gradually began to occupy and in Russia. Increasingly, he enters the dessert menu in a cafe.
Almost every mistress in her arsenal has several options for a different preparation of apple pie. Sometimes women just have to improvise with the recipes already tested in the kitchen on the members of their family, the main point for these culinary experiments is a fantasy and their own mood. In Russian schools, apple pie is one of the few dishes taught to girls to cook at home economics lessons. On the Internet on forums for men in the recipe for apple pie, in addition to traditional ingredients, plaster, iodine and bandage often appear. It is clear that this advice is more of a joke than a joke, because even an inexperienced culinary expert can bake an apple pie.