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 Apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream | |
| Alternative names | Apple crumble |
|---|---|
| Region or state | Everybody's Cookbook:US |
| Main ingredients | |
Apple crisp (US, orapple crumble in the UK and Canada) is adessert made with astreusel topping. Ingredients usually include cooked apples,butter,sugar,flour, andcinnamon. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924. Other similar desserts includeapple Brown Betty,apple cobbler,apple pan dowdy,apple pie, andEve's pudding.
An apple crispdessert is made with astreusel topping.[1] In the US, it is also calledapple crumble, a word which refers to adifferent dessert in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.[2][3][4]
Ingredients usually include cooked apples,butter,sugar,flour,cinnamon, and oftenoats[5] andbrown sugar,ginger ornutmeg.[1] One of the most common variants isapple rhubarb crisp, in which therhubarb provides a tart contrast to the apples.[citation needed]
Apple crisp is a relatively modern dish. It is notably absent from the first edition of theFannie Farmer Cookbook (1896), which is a comprehensive collection of American recipes. Variations of this dish are much older, for example, a recipe for apple pandowdy is inMiss Corson's Practical American Cookery, 1886.[6]
The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924, with a recipe in theIsabel Ely Lord'sEverybody's Cook Book: A Comprehensive Manual of Home Cookery.[7] Apple crisp also made an appearance in a newspaper article in theAppleton Post Crescent on December 9, 1924.[8] Its popularity further spread afterWorld War II, with crumble being easier to prepare than the pastry needed forapple pie.[9]
Despite its relatively recent invention, apple crisp or crumble has become an American and Britishtradition especially during the autumn, whenapples are plentiful.[citation needed] The dish is also very popular in Canada, especially in areas where berries and fruit are readily available.[citation needed]
Many other kinds of fruitcrisps are also made, these may substitute other fruits, such aspeaches,berries, orpears, for the apples. There are a number of desserts that employapples with sweet toppings, but none of them are the same as apple crisp, making them not so much variants, but instead other related apple desserts.
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Apple Crisp at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject
