Allow me to suggest a feta cheese and golden delicious combination, hmmm
I like the way you guys roll.
We’ve always eaten cheddar with apple pie in my family - didn’t realize it was uncommon.
And, not a New England thing for us - maybe something brought by grandparents from Scotland.
But rhubarb pie should not be sweet in the first place.
I like cheddar with an apple. On an apple pie, I prefer custard to ice cream.
I had a cold chunk of cheddar on the plate next to the apple pie yesterday and may do it again today. This was a standard presentation among my Massachusetts and Maine relatives. I never heard of melting the cheese on top of the pie.
Exactly. Just eat the cheese.
Don’t like pie.
I enjoy it like this more than with ice cream or whip cream but I prefer the cheese cold. I don’t particularly enjoy heated pie.
I’ve never had the cheese melted on the from having the pie come straight out of the oven - I have a feeling I might disappear into a pie-crust, cheddar-cheese haze, never to be heard from again.
Quoth devilsknew:
Huh, where my family is from (Appalachian Pennsylvania), shoofly pie is mostly molasses, like pecan pie without the pecans. As in, it’s so sweet that you’ll have to keep shooing the flies away.
It is a similar tradition in my home county in the north-east of England.
A rich fruit cake is serve with a sharp or mild creamy cheese such as the excellent Cotherstone
This is actually quite a common pairing, when treated to traditional Turkish fare in Istanbul I was given ferociously sweet baklava and dates etc. with a sharp dense yoghurt.
It. Was. Divine.
Not much of a jump from that to apple pie + cheddar.
Only from Taxi Driver, but I think that was American cheese.
Joe
Wait, what? I’ve been to Lancaster PA and surrounding areas dozens of times. That’s nothing at all like a shoo-fly pie. There’s certainly no cheese involved.
Joe
I’m not sure if devilsknew was referring to sugar cream or apple with cheese, but neither one is not what I know as shoofly pie. I agree it is heavily based in molasses. Wiki appears to agree with that.
As far as apple pie with cheese. Some people are saying it is good, but they prefer ice cream. Who says you have to settle for just one? Just yesterday (before I saw this thread) I went out and bought mild Cheddar and some vanilla ice cream in response to my wife telling me she just bought an apple pie. We’re having it tonight and mine will have a slice of cheese on top and ice cream right next to it. Some of each in every bite.
My mom used to say that apple pie with a slice of cheese was a good breakfast. She usually uses American cheese and not cheddar. It’s all right, but I’d prefer to eat the pie and cheese separately.
My wife, a Vermonter born and raised, said the cheddar was always just a slice on the plate with the pie, never melted on top, when she was growing up. Just as I’d always heard.
Or bacon.
Can you imagine a slice of apple pie with cheddar cheese (cold please) and a rasher or two of crispy fried bacon?
patent pending
I like super sharp cheddar. it would dominate the pie.
OK, apple pie and bacon would be really good.
And apple pie is a great breakfast all by itself. It’s unnatural to not eat pie for breakfast, when you have any in the house.
Yea, actually you’re right. The shoofly is dark sugar cream pie, whereas the sugar cream is a light sugar cream pie. My bad, I guess I just meant they were in the same family of “sugar pies”. That sugar cream pie is an easy pie to make and it’s really good, it’s so good it got me laid.
Apple & pork pies are old-school, though the recipes I have call for salt pork rather than bacon. I’ve never tried it myself, though.
(And yes, you’re supposed to just cut up the pork and mix it in with the apples.)
Seeing bacon, apple, and cheddar sandwiches are delicious - yes. yes, I can.