Pastries
Marlborough pie
United States
A New England colonial pie of apples or quince baked in a custard of cream and eggs.
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What it is
A closer look at Marlborough pie.
A New England colonial pie of apples or quince baked in a custard of cream and eggs.
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Silky, spiced custard with soft fruit in a pastry shell — an 18th-century Thanksgiving ancestor.
Where it belongs
Origins and
traditions.
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United States
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Luxembourg
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Antigua and Barbuda
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Saint Martin
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Epirus, Greece
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Kano, Niger
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Panama
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