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"As American as apple pie" is a phrase that traces its ancestry back to the early American settlers. Apples were brought from Europe to America and apples dishes became a staple of the colonial dinner table. One of the many reasons apple pie was favored among early American settlers is that it used little precious flour and required only a brick oven to make. Apples were fare for the common man.
In his book "Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy," Peter Wynne noted that while the American taste for apples may have come from the British, many of the new recipes, such as "slumps," were the products of "American invention."
That spirit of cooking innovation was given voice in the expression "as American as apple pie" as John Lehndorff, of the American Pie Council, wrote in his book "As American as Apple Pie."
"When you say that something is 'as American as apple pie,' what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
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