Deep-dish apple pie often has a top crust only and tarte Tatin is baked with the crust on top, but served with it on the bottom. An apple pie is a pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apple. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling; the upper crust may be solid or latticed (woven of crosswise strips). Apple pie can be made with many different sorts of apples. The more popular cooking apples include Braeburn, Gala, Cortland, Bramley, Empire, Northern Spy, Granny Smith, and McIntosh. Apple pie was brought to the colonies by the English, the Dutch, and the Swedes during the 17th and 18th centuries. English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer. The early Dutch recipe was simple, requiring only a standard pie crust, slices of especially soft apples with their skin and seeds removed. It was then baked in a typical Dutch oven. French style tart actually is upside down, with the fruit being caramelised. The Swedish styl...