Get ready for fall with our all-Mexican apple pie recipe

Published October 7, 2024

There’s nothing like crisp, juicy apples in the fall and who grows them better than Mexicans, who have grown them here for centuries!? And what better use for them than a surprisingly traditional Mexican apple pie?

It all started about 20 years after the Spanish conquest around the mid-16th century; however, apples weren’t grown as a fruit to be enjoyed, or to be put into succulent pies or pastries, but rather to be turned into alcohol for the Europeans who had settled here, in the form of apple cider, the hard kind, which was refused to indigenous peoples. But missionaries had other ideas and became most instrumental in introducing apples to the Mexican people, expanding their horizons beyond alcohol, and teaching them cultivation and growing techniques. It didn’t take long for the fruit to prosper in the mountainous regions of Mexico, where growing conditions were superb.

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