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Baking An Apple Pie With No Apples

Notice anything strange about the apple pie pictured here? If you noticed there were no apples at all, you are right. That because the picture comes from The Awl's recipe for an appleless apple pie that uses chemicals to trick your tastebuds. The most important ingredient? Cream of Tartar.

While you won't win any cooking contests with this recipe, you'll certainly be able to impress your chemist friends at your next dinner party.

Link Via BoingBoing

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If you read the article, you'll find that this "chemical apple pie" is also called "mock apple pie," it is much older than the Ritz box recipe, it was invented when apples were scarce and crackers were not, and popularized when WWII sent most apples overseas for the soldiers and what was left here was prohibitively expensive.

My daughter and I made this yesterday and we are astounded to say, it looked, slightly smelled, and tasted like apple pie. We shared it with everyone who were also amazed. Then we made a much better real apple pie. :)
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Miss C, I never really understood it either because apples are so cheap and available year round. But your comment reminded me that in reality, they are seasonal. Maybe this recipe was an option to make pies while the apples weren't growing.
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Too damn funny! It's a smart time saving move though maybe their learning something down there. I'm sure they'd fit in well with the current business world.
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| Good students copy, great students steal.

Poor students copy.
Good students do it themselves.
Better students steal.
Great students don't get caught.

and

Grad students don't do anything.
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If they copied it "word for word" then they are just stupid lazy people who didn't take their task seriously. These are probably a bunch of kids that thought it would help pad their resumes or look good on a grad school application.
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Ugh please.

How is replicating another school's law / rule / code plagiarism? That falls in the realm of fair use. Lots of governing organizations "steal" ideas from others policies, by-laws, and regulation. There is no need to cite.
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Borrowing ideas is one thing. Borrowing text word-for-word without acknowledging your source is plagiarism.

Every student in every college/university has the rules about plagiarism hammered into their noggins from Day 1.
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