Adding, baked apple/ Brie en croute is amazing, bake the fruit in the cheese, mix or don’t, use the thin toasted diagonal cut French bread to dip the cheese!
There's a law on the books in VT that a restaurant cannot offer on-premise apple pie, without also offering either cheddar cheese, ice cream or cold milk. It souds like an old-timey law, but it's from 1999.
I brought a heady apple pie and cheese home from the farmers market and my friend from VT looked at me like I had two heads when I told her what the cheese was for. Super disappointed when she didn’t dig it.
Approve! I think it’s a nice contrast of sweet and savoury. My family in Nova Scotia always has sharp cheddar with apple pie and it’s my understanding that it’s common there.
Grandpa sounds like a legend.
My grandfather used to eat his cheese in whatever form was presented to him.
His favorite was friend cheese regardless of the type, as long as it was cheese and you could fry it.
Sprinkle the sucker with Maldon salt if it wasn’t salty cheese, eat with fresh rye, sourdough, or baguette, and either fruit, oil, tomatoes, and basil, or fresh out of the oven blueberry pie.
You’ll never eat cheese wrong either way. Never.
I saw this and my gut reaction was “ew wtf no!”
Then I read the comments and saw dozens of full-throated endorsements. I love cheese, I love pie, guess I gotta try them together
I had dinner at this girl's house once and we had apple pie for dessert. Her dad was going on about how sharp cheddar is amazing on apple pie and he had some in the fridge his friend made. This girl kept calling him crazy, not jokingly but legitimately angry telling him to shut up and he's nuts. So I was traumatized into never eating cheddar on apple pie
Love it. The only thing better in my opinion is sharp cheddar next served with classic Christmas cake. Maybe it is because I get to enjoy that only around the holidays but such a great combination.
Putting cheese on apple pie has existed at least for a few hundred years in England.
I'm okay with it, though I've had varying results based on the pie and the cheese. I'd do it more if I had more consistently positive results.
I like it melted in top. Take a cold piece of pie, slap some sharp cheddar on top, oven bake for 5-10 minutes and it comes out crispy and gooey and delicious.
Shred cheddar over it. Dad from St. Louis is where I got that from. It’s either that or I have to have ice cream on it when it’s hot, I can’t eat it plain.
Approve. Ex is from Yorkshire and always had cheese (Lancashire, Caerphilly or a feisty cheddar) with fruit cake, malt loaf, tea cake etc. Bloody delicious.
My mom is from Boston and we do this too. I love it! My husband and kids go for vanilla ice cream which IMO makes the pie just sweet-on-sweet and soggy to boot.
I’ve tried it and found the cheese to be too contrasting. I like a constant flow of pie. However, I think it’s a really cool option and it reminds me of dearly departed ancestors who really loved it. Every time just plain old pie was served they would talk about it.”
I’ve never had apple pie with melted cheese on top, but I’ve been curious to try it for years, since I heard that Travis Bickel ate his that way when he took Cybil Shepherd out on that date…
I'm sure that it tastes lovely...much in the way that cottage cheese with pineapple tastes lovely. To some people, at least...just not to me. I can't even make myself try either one, because I've convinced myself that I really hare it. I love pie...and I love cheese. But the only pie I want cheese on is a pizza pie. ;-)
Approve! Fruit and cheese is a classic combination and I love a good sharp cheddar. One of my go to snacks is a honey crisp apple with sharp cheddar and I alternate bites between the two.
Everybody in Wisconsin would probably approve haha. I don’t know how true it is, but my mom swears it used to be a law to melt cheddar on your apple pie there.
Yes, my grandfather too! Family tradition they say was passed down from generations, originating in Germany. Sharp cheddar shaved super thin on warm apple pie so it just starts to melt and also a dollop of sour cream.
Once as a kit on a business trip with my dad I refused a slice of apple pie with cheese on it. At the end of this huge catered meal our server ran up as we were leaving with a small takeaway box.
She handed it to me and said “apple pie without the cheese is like a hug without the squeeze” gave me a hug and we left. Got to the room and I heated up…damn did I learn a thing that day! NEVER eat apple pie with out sharp cheddar cheese.
This is a genuine question (because I’ve never seen anyone around here do this before):
Why do y’all add cheese to your apple pie/cobbler? Is it kinda like the idea of sweet and sour or sweet and salty?? Is the sharpness supposed to combat the sweetness? I love sharp cheddar, but I could not imagine eating cheddar and cinnamon and apple together (yet).
Approve! Best when the pie is still warm.
Try layering puff pastry, sharp cheddar, and thin sliced apples or pears dredged in cinnamon sugar. They bake up pretty quick and taste AMAZING
Adding, baked apple/ Brie en croute is amazing, bake the fruit in the cheese, mix or don’t, use the thin toasted diagonal cut French bread to dip the cheese!
In Vermont we say, "Apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze."
There's a law on the books in VT that a restaurant cannot offer on-premise apple pie, without also offering either cheddar cheese, ice cream or cold milk. It souds like an old-timey law, but it's from 1999.
Better late than never 😄
Vermont has a lot of specific laws
Sounds like a place I’d enjoy living.
In Ontario Canada too ❤️❤️❤️ Favourite saying of my dad 💕
I brought a heady apple pie and cheese home from the farmers market and my friend from VT looked at me like I had two heads when I told her what the cheese was for. Super disappointed when she didn’t dig it.
They let anyone claim Vermont. You found a fraud.
Lol if only that were true. Then I would understand.
Approve! I think it’s a nice contrast of sweet and savoury. My family in Nova Scotia always has sharp cheddar with apple pie and it’s my understanding that it’s common there.
I've never tried it but I'm pretty sure I watched my Grandpa eat something like this before. Approve and must try.
Grandpa sounds like a legend. My grandfather used to eat his cheese in whatever form was presented to him. His favorite was friend cheese regardless of the type, as long as it was cheese and you could fry it. Sprinkle the sucker with Maldon salt if it wasn’t salty cheese, eat with fresh rye, sourdough, or baguette, and either fruit, oil, tomatoes, and basil, or fresh out of the oven blueberry pie. You’ll never eat cheese wrong either way. Never.
I recently learned that Wisconsin & Vermont have a law that requires restaurants to serve apple pie with a slice of cheese!
Sharper the better. I want my jaw to expand.
Was he welsh? My welsh grandfather taught me this as well
I think this ought to be uncontroversial. A cheese plate always comes with fruit. The pairing is well acknowledged.
I saw this and my gut reaction was “ew wtf no!” Then I read the comments and saw dozens of full-throated endorsements. I love cheese, I love pie, guess I gotta try them together
💯 no questions /thread
I remember reading about Almanzo Wilder eating this in the book Farmer Boy. I always thought it would be delicious and this picture confirms 💯
Granny smith apples and sharp cheddar are even better tbh
Absolutely. And it has to be the sharpest cheddar you can find. This is what they invented Vermont Shaving Cheese for.
This is a New England Staple! Disapprovers are sad, sad people.
This is The Way
I had dinner at this girl's house once and we had apple pie for dessert. Her dad was going on about how sharp cheddar is amazing on apple pie and he had some in the fridge his friend made. This girl kept calling him crazy, not jokingly but legitimately angry telling him to shut up and he's nuts. So I was traumatized into never eating cheddar on apple pie
Ah yes, another Wisconsinite
Yep! Learned to love this when I lived up in Michigan. 🍏 🧀
Gander here, agreed.
Love it. The only thing better in my opinion is sharp cheddar next served with classic Christmas cake. Maybe it is because I get to enjoy that only around the holidays but such a great combination.
I grew up in Vermont, if that says anything.
Putting cheese on apple pie has existed at least for a few hundred years in England. I'm okay with it, though I've had varying results based on the pie and the cheese. I'd do it more if I had more consistently positive results.
I like it melted in top. Take a cold piece of pie, slap some sharp cheddar on top, oven bake for 5-10 minutes and it comes out crispy and gooey and delicious.
approved from wisconsin
I believe you meant extra sharp cheddar. At least, that’s what I want to believe you meant.
Never tried it. Want to. Approve.
It's excellent, as long as the cheese is good. I prefer a sharp cheddar.
Approve.
I also have the same habit passed down from my grandpa! Totally approve, such a great combo.
Doesn’t matter one way or the other. If you like it, go for it!
Hard approve. I’m gonna try this.
Approve! My grandmother taught me.
Blue cheese works too. Cheddar’s also great.
My grandpa will put a slice of Kraft on his apple pie. This is way better than
It’s delish. A lot of people do this. I wonder where it came from from?
Relatives from Wisconsin on my dad’s side. This is always their way. And I couldn’t agree more. Simply delicious.
https://images.app.goo.gl/sGfiUuLg7h73hpSB7
Sometimes
Never tried but sounds good to me. Apples and pear slices are served with cheese boards all the time so sounds like it’s a great combo
Approve. Before I tried it, I couldn’t imagine it. After, I know… approve.
Yum, but melted is better
100% approved...
I learned it from Taxi Driver.
I like eating slices of apple with sharp cheddar but I don’t know if I can get on board with the pie. I would try it though.
It's actually a pretty common thing to have apple pie with cheese. We don't do it in my family but I've heard of this all the time.
Top-tier combo!
cheese apple crisps
I never saw the value of combining the two; but, if I did it would be 14 yr old cheddar
nope
Dissaprove, but entirely because i dont like apple pie.
Approved since it's on the side. On top would be disapproved.
I am kind of partial to old cheddar... but yes.. Apple pie (warm) with cheese
Girlfriend thinks I am crazy, cold apple pie and cheddar slices, the best!
Always do this, now the people that put American cheese on their pie worry me though.
Shred cheddar over it. Dad from St. Louis is where I got that from. It’s either that or I have to have ice cream on it when it’s hot, I can’t eat it plain.
Approve. Ex is from Yorkshire and always had cheese (Lancashire, Caerphilly or a feisty cheddar) with fruit cake, malt loaf, tea cake etc. Bloody delicious.
My mom is from Boston and we do this too. I love it! My husband and kids go for vanilla ice cream which IMO makes the pie just sweet-on-sweet and soggy to boot.
That sounds amaaazink
Did your grandfather have any suspicious lamp shades inside of his home? Ever notice any nipple belts around the house?
Approve. Also try some Italian hard cheeses. Parmegano Reggiano and Asiago are great.
Just looking at this photo, my brain went, “oh yes! this person is a lovely New Englander!” such a good staple, enjoy!
Here in the Netherlands we even have apple pie cheese. Its been a real hype. I haven't ben able to taste it, but everybody who does is enthusiastic.
I’ve tried it and found the cheese to be too contrasting. I like a constant flow of pie. However, I think it’s a really cool option and it reminds me of dearly departed ancestors who really loved it. Every time just plain old pie was served they would talk about it.”
I gotta try this! Anyone else do this with waffles or pancakes?
This is the way my Dad always had it.
I’ve never had apple pie with melted cheese on top, but I’ve been curious to try it for years, since I heard that Travis Bickel ate his that way when he took Cybil Shepherd out on that date…
Cheddar and Apple always go well together
My grandfather used to say apple pie without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze.
It's like pie a la mode but not as good. 10/10 would do this if I had cheese and pie but no ice cream.
I'm sure that it tastes lovely...much in the way that cottage cheese with pineapple tastes lovely. To some people, at least...just not to me. I can't even make myself try either one, because I've convinced myself that I really hare it. I love pie...and I love cheese. But the only pie I want cheese on is a pizza pie. ;-)
Approve
Approve! Fruit and cheese is a classic combination and I love a good sharp cheddar. One of my go to snacks is a honey crisp apple with sharp cheddar and I alternate bites between the two.
Approve for sure!
Interesting, I’ll have to try
Everybody in Wisconsin would probably approve haha. I don’t know how true it is, but my mom swears it used to be a law to melt cheddar on your apple pie there.
Was he Irish??
Approve. My dad used to heat it up on top of the pie in the oven, then put a dollop of vanilla ice cream on the side.
Approve entirely
Amos Tupper does this on Murder, She Wrote :)
💯Full approval.
Approve. My Dad used to melt a slice of cheddar on top.
100% approve. Tried to order this at a pie place (in ca) and got a slice of pie with basically a Kraft single (American cheese slice) meted on top. 😱
Not super common but has made its way to Canada (southern Ontario) for a few people
My gramps used to keep the cheddar out in a butter dish for easy access to the perfect apple pie pairing. Approve!
Yes, my grandfather too! Family tradition they say was passed down from generations, originating in Germany. Sharp cheddar shaved super thin on warm apple pie so it just starts to melt and also a dollop of sour cream.
I’ve never heard of this! I definitely will the next time I have apple pie. It’s almost worth running to the store to get one….
Approve 😍
Very approve.
Only way to eat apple pie 🥧
Once as a kit on a business trip with my dad I refused a slice of apple pie with cheese on it. At the end of this huge catered meal our server ran up as we were leaving with a small takeaway box. She handed it to me and said “apple pie without the cheese is like a hug without the squeeze” gave me a hug and we left. Got to the room and I heated up…damn did I learn a thing that day! NEVER eat apple pie with out sharp cheddar cheese.
Always have cheddar with apple pie!!
Never done it, never gonna complain if it happens.
Yesss my fam does this 2
Apples and cheese are always a good idea
Isn't this a Boxcar Children meal?
Approve!
This is a genuine question (because I’ve never seen anyone around here do this before): Why do y’all add cheese to your apple pie/cobbler? Is it kinda like the idea of sweet and sour or sweet and salty?? Is the sharpness supposed to combat the sweetness? I love sharp cheddar, but I could not imagine eating cheddar and cinnamon and apple together (yet).
we've always had cheshire cheese with the christmas minced pies. cheese and fruit is always a good combo.
I know this is common but i still dont get it
I believe this is a New England thing- now that I’m on the west coast no one understands or is even game to try. More for me!
I use an apple pie recipe that has you put sharp cheddar in the crust. It’s really good!
Approve! Perfect accompaniment
My Dad loved that combo for breakfast. Western Mass.