Originally Posted by
charley26
I am Irish, and I have never heard of, and have no knowledge of, this recipe being of Irish origins, least of all with such an English name. Would love to know your source.
I clicked the recipe link and this is what it said of the origin:
"Marlborough Pie
(From Amy Traverso’s Apple Lover’s Cookbook)
I always assumed this dish was a Massachusetts native, associating it with Boston’s Marlborough Street, which is very posh and lined with nineteenth-century townhouses. I pictured some proper Bostonian’s clever cook inventing an apple custard pie and serving it at a dinner attended by Fannie Farmer, who took it from there (never mind that the godmother of American cooking didn’t travel in those circles).
In reality, this custard pie filled with shredded apples and flavored with lemon and sherry goes back much further, first appearing in a 1660 British book, The Accomplisht Cook, written by a Paris-trained chef named Robert May. It traveled to the New World with the colonists and became hugely popular in Massachusetts, where it was also called Deerfield Pie."