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Apple crisp
Apple crisp (US, or apple crumble in the UK and Canada) is a dessert made with a streusel topping. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924. Other similar desserts include apple Brown Betty, apple cobbler, apple pan dowdy, apple pie, and Eve's pudding.
An apple crisp dessert is made with a streusel topping. In the US, it is also called apple crumble, a word which refers to a different dessert in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger or nutmeg. One of the most common variants is apple rhubarb crisp, in which the rhubarb 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 the Fannie 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 in Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery, 1886.
An early reference to a crumble-style topping was a recipe for apple crumble in the Canadian Farmer's Magazine in February 1917. The earliest reference to apple crisp specifically in print occurs in 1924, with a recipe in Isabel Ely Lord's Everybody's Cook Book: A Comprehensive Manual of Home Cookery. Apple crisp also made an appearance in a newspaper article in the Appleton Post Crescent on December 9, 1924.
The related British dish, apple crumble, developed separately. British chef and food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall describes crumbles as a "national institution" that became popular in the United Kingdom after World War II, the crumble topping a simpler practical alternative to the pastry required for apple pie.
Despite their relatively recent invention, apple crisp and apple crumble have each become culinary traditions in their respective countries, particularly during autumn when apples are plentiful.[citation needed] Both dishes are also popular in Canada, especially in areas where berries and fruit are readily available.[citation needed] While apple is the most common filling, the format lends itself to a wide variety of fruits depending on the season, including rhubarb in spring, soft fruits such as gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries in summer, and plums and pears in autumn.
Many other kinds of fruit crisps are also made, these may substitute other fruits, such as peaches, berries, or pears, for the apples. There are a number of desserts that employ apples 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
Apple crisp (US, or apple crumble in the UK and Canada) is a dessert made with a streusel topping. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924. Other similar desserts include apple Brown Betty, apple cobbler, apple pan dowdy, apple pie, and Eve's pudding.
An apple crisp dessert is made with a streusel topping. In the US, it is also called apple crumble, a word which refers to a different dessert in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger or nutmeg. One of the most common variants is apple rhubarb crisp, in which the rhubarb 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 the Fannie 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 in Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery, 1886.
An early reference to a crumble-style topping was a recipe for apple crumble in the Canadian Farmer's Magazine in February 1917. The earliest reference to apple crisp specifically in print occurs in 1924, with a recipe in Isabel Ely Lord's Everybody's Cook Book: A Comprehensive Manual of Home Cookery. Apple crisp also made an appearance in a newspaper article in the Appleton Post Crescent on December 9, 1924.
The related British dish, apple crumble, developed separately. British chef and food writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall describes crumbles as a "national institution" that became popular in the United Kingdom after World War II, the crumble topping a simpler practical alternative to the pastry required for apple pie.
Despite their relatively recent invention, apple crisp and apple crumble have each become culinary traditions in their respective countries, particularly during autumn when apples are plentiful.[citation needed] Both dishes are also popular in Canada, especially in areas where berries and fruit are readily available.[citation needed] While apple is the most common filling, the format lends itself to a wide variety of fruits depending on the season, including rhubarb in spring, soft fruits such as gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries in summer, and plums and pears in autumn.
Many other kinds of fruit crisps are also made, these may substitute other fruits, such as peaches, berries, or pears, for the apples. There are a number of desserts that employ apples 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.