Apple Pie

This is one of our oldest English dishes, and one which is very often badly made. A horrible plan is frequently adopted in cheap or middle-class restaurants of simply stewing some apples, baking a sheet of pastry on a tin, and serving a wedge of it on the stewed apple and calling it apple pie. This is a direct insult to the real thing, and to the customer who knows better.

Mr. P. Morton Shand says (1927): ‘English apple pie is of rare merit when achieved by a true c