Taken from Westmoreland, Susan. Good Housekeeping Great Home Cooking: 300 Traditional Recipes. New York: Hearst Books, 2006.
Above, Dutton's apple pie and Cabot Seriously Sharp cheddar, ("the cheese we used to sell to hunters and truckers...on their way out of town.")It seems either common knowledge (New England, or Wisconsin) or incomprehensible (everyone else) that people would eat cheddar cheese with their apple pie. Am trying to get a good reference but at the least have found a poem from the 1800's by American poet and journalist Eugene Field titled Apple Pie and Cheese. Excerpt...
(God bless her Yankee ways!)
On memory's pinions takes me
To dear Green Mountain days;
And seems like I see Mother
Lean on the window-sill,
A-handin' me and brother
What she knows'll keep us still;
And these feelings are so grateful,
Says I, "Julia, if you please,
I'll take another plateful
Of that apple-pie and cheese!"
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I confess that I never got the cheese thing (clearly I'm not from around here), but Grandma always said: 'apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.'
i have heard that rhyme before...but cant understand it.
We use "Northern Spy" apples to make pies.
Coming from the same county as Dutton Farms, apple pie with Seriously Sharp Cabot cheese is the only way to go. I'd take it rather than ice cream any day. Agreed that Northern Spys are a great pie apple.
The strawberries should be out at Dutton's pick-you-own field soon. Strawberry-rhubarb pie....
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