Marlborough Pie
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Marlborough Pie
As you can see, I'm on an Irish kick this morning. I'm hoping to go there some day soon. Here's an old English/Irish recipe for an apple custard pie that looks yummy: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/g...arlborough-pie. It's a little heavy on the dairy, but the sherry sounds like a nice finishing touch.
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"Marlborough Pie
(From Amy Traverso’s Apple Lover’s Cookbook)
I always assumed this dish was a Massachusetts native, associating it with Boston’s Marlborough Street, which is very posh and lined with nineteenth-century townhouses. I pictured some proper Bostonian’s clever cook inventing an apple custard pie and serving it at a dinner attended by Fannie Farmer, who took it from there (never mind that the godmother of American cooking didn’t travel in those circles).
In reality, this custard pie filled with shredded apples and flavored with lemon and sherry goes back much further, first appearing in a 1660 British book, The Accomplisht Cook, written by a Paris-trained chef named Robert May. It traveled to the New World with the colonists and became hugely popular in Massachusetts, where it was also called Deerfield Pie."
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