The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and apple betty fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know.

We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Apple Betty fun facts.

Apple Betty Fun Facts. A Betty consists of a fruit, most commonly apples, baked between layers of buttered crumbs. Betties are an English pudding dessert closely related to the French apple charlotte. Betty was a popular baked pudding made during colonial times in America.

• The name seems to have first appeared in print in 1864. An article in the Yale Literary Magazine listed it (in quotation marks, implying that it was not then a fully established term) with tea, coffee, and pies as things to be given up during ‘training’. That author gave brown in lower case and Betty in upper case: and, in default of evidence to the contrary, it seems best to go along with the view that Betty is here a proper name.
• Apple Brown Betty was one of the favorite desserts of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the White House.
• Brown Betty (1890) – This recipe was part of the winning essay for the $500 American Public health Association Lomb prize on practical, Sanitary, and Economic Cooking Adapted to persons of Moderate and Small Means, which became a book of the same title by Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel. It was part of a series of menus to feed a family on thirteen cents a day. Mrs. Abel may have carried the recipe into use at the New England Kitchen. It was an experimental Boston restaurant aimed at “improving” the food choices of the poor.

Key Date

• October 5th is National Apple Betty Day.

Apple Betty Fun Facts We Missed

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Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Apple Betty.

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