Apple pie

Apple pie is perhaps the most common type of dessert among many peoples of the world. England, Russia, France and America dispute the right to be called the birthplace of apple pie. According to one of the English versions, Queen Sofia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitzkaya, wife of George III, had her hand in the apple pie recipe, and in her honor the pie is called charlotte. And although in the distant Middle Ages, many pies that had beaten eggs, milk and sugar in their composition were called charlottes, but to this day the name charlotte has come down firmly associated with apple pie. Although, if in the English apple pie they used bread for cooking, then in the French version, thanks to the chef Marie-Antoine Karem, they began to use biscuit instead of bread. And on top, the cake was covered with custard. In Russia, they began to serve apple pie to the table of Alexander I, who really liked this culinary masterpiece. The pie was named "Russian charlotte". Rumor has it that it was named after Alexandra Fedorovna - Charlotte of Prussia. There is also a version that the apple pie was created by Russian chefs for Sophia Charlotte of Blankenburg, the daughter-in-law of Tsar Peter I. And in America, especially in Virginia, apple pie simply became a national symbol. Although the cake recipe from good old England migrated to the USA, in the states it is considered their own brainchild. There is even a city in America called Pie Town in honor of this very pie. A very small town, but it was in it in the early 1920s that the American pastry maker Clyde Norman began to bake and sell those very American pies. I must say that the recipe for the American pie was changed, they added butter or margarine, lemon zest and rum to it. Also at the heart of the American pie is, in fact, two layers of shortcrust pastry and an apple filling. Alternatively, the cake can be open or half closed. Previously, apple pie was baked when autumn came and the apples were harvested. Now apples are on our table all year round. Still, the most delicious apple pie is made with Antonovka. The apple pie, the recipe for which is suggested in the comments to the puzzle, is especially popular with men. Looks big, but disappears quickly!