Apple crisp

Apple crisp with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Alternative names	Apple crumble
Region or state	Everybody's Cookbook: US
Main ingredients	Apples butter sugar flour cinnamon oats brown sugar ginger nutmeg
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Apple crisp (or apple crumble, in the UK) 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 crumble, apple pan dowdy, apple pie, and Eve's pudding.

An apple crisp dessert is made with a streusel topping.^[1] 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.^[2][3][4]

Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats^{[citation needed]} and brown sugar, ginger, and/or nutmeg.^[1] 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.^[5]

The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924, with a recipe in the Isabel Ely Lord's Everybody's Cook Book: A Comprehensive Manual of Home Cookery.^[6] In 1924, apple crisp also makes an appearance in a newspaper article in the Appleton Post Crescent on December 9, 1924.^[7] Its popularity further spread during World War II, when food rationing limited access to pastry ingredients used for making apple pies.^[8]

Despite its relatively recent invention, apple crisp or crumble has become an American and British tradition especially during the autumn, when apples 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 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.

• Apple Brown Betty (or apple pudding) consists of alternating layers of apples and sweetened buttered bread crumbs or crackers, often with a sauce.
• Apple cobbler (also known as apple slump, apple grunt, and apple pandowdy) is an old recipe in which the baked apples are topped with a cobbler crust formed of batter, pie crust or baking powder biscuit dough. The topping may be dropped onto the top of the apples in clumps, which have a 'cobbled' appearance, thus the name. A 'grunt' is a cobbler cooked on top of the stove and a 'slump' is fruit and biscuit dumplings which is turned upside down after being baked so that the fruit is slumped into the fruit with a fork.^[9]
• Apple crumble is a British pudding similar to the apple crisp that originated during World War II food rationing.^{[citation needed]} The crumble topping is made of butter, flour, and brown sugar rolled together so that it resembles breadcrumbs. Care must be taken to balance the correct amount of crumble with the fruit, or else the filling may seep through and spoil this crust. Crumble is traditionally served with custard, but today it is sometimes served with cream or ice cream. Crumbles made from apples, and sometimes other fruits, are also common in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
• Apple pan dowdy most commonly features a pie crust, which is broken ("dowdied") before serving: it is a pie, not a cobbler.
• Apple pie is a pie in which the principal filling is apples. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling, though may have a crumble or streusel topping.^[10][11]
• Eve's pudding is a British dessert that is essentially a sponge cake atop the apples. The name may originate from the biblical reference to Eve and the apple in the Garden of Eden.

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