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| Type | Pie |
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| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | Philippines |
| Region or state | Silay City, Negros Occidental |
| Created by | Alice Locsin Villanueva |
| Serving temperature | Warm |
| Main ingredients | Pie shell, Apple Guava, cinammon, butter, salt |
Guapple pie, sometimes known as guava pie, is a specialty pie originating from Silay City, located in Negros Occidental, Philippines. The pie is named after its primary ingredient, guapple, a variety of large guava fruit known for its crisp texture and sweet-tart flavor. [1]
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Guapple Pie consists of a flaky, buttery pastry crust filled with slices of ripe guapple fruit. The filling is usually flavored with sugar, cinnamon, and sometimes other spices, balancing the natural tartness of the guapple with sweetness. The pie is typically baked until the crust turns golden brown, with the fruit filling softening to create a rich, flavorful dessert. It is served either warm or at room temperature, and is often enjoyed with coffee or as a dessert.
The history of Guapple Pie is closely tied to the heritage of Silay City, a place known for its ancestral houses and strong culinary traditions. One of the key landmarks in the town is the Cesar Lacson Locsin Ancestral House, which is part of the Silay National Historical Landmark, recognized by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
The house shares its history with one of the oldest bakeshops in the region, El Ideal Bakery, founded in the 1920s by the late Cesar Lacson-Locsin. Originally known for its baked goods, El Ideal became renowned for its Guapple Pie, a creation born from necessity during the sugar crisis of the 1980s. [2] [3]
As sugar prices plummeted due to the rise of high-fructose alternatives, local sugarcane farmers sought new crops to cultivate, and the guapple fruit, a Vietnamese variety of guava, became a popular choice. Alice Locsin Villanueva, daughter of Cesar Lacson-Locsin, saw an opportunity in this shift and substituted the guapple fruit in the traditional American apple pie recipe. [4]
Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course consists of sweet foods, such as cake, biscuit, ice cream and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine and liqueur. Some cultures sweeten foods that are more commonly savory to create desserts. In some parts of the world there is no tradition of a dessert course to conclude a meal.
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit, nuts, fruit preserves, brown sugar, sweetened vegetables, or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy. Savoury pies may be filled with meat, eggs and cheese or a mixture of meat and vegetables.
Negros Occidental, officially the Province of Negros Occidental, is a province in the Philippines located in the Negros Island Region. Its capital is the city of Bacolod, of which it is geographically situated and grouped under by the Philippine Statistics Authority, but remains politically independent from the provincial government and also one of the two regional centers in Negros Island Region. It occupies the northwestern half of the large island of Negros, and borders Negros Oriental, which comprises the southeastern half. Known as the "Sugarbowl of the Philippines", Negros Occidental produces more than half the nation's sugar output.
Cheesecake is a dessert made with a soft fresh cheese, eggs, and sugar. It may have a crust or base made from crushed cookies, graham crackers, pastry, or sometimes sponge cake. Cheesecake may be baked or unbaked, and is usually served chilled.
Apple crisp is a dessert made with a streusel topping. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, and cinnamon. The earliest reference to apple crisp in print occurs in 1924. Other similar desserts include apple Brown Betty, apple cobbler, apple crumble, apple pan dowdy, apple pie, and Eve's pudding.
Silay, officially the City of Silay, is a 3rd class component city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 130,478 people.
Aniceto Ledesma Lacson is a Filipino revolutionary general, sugar farmer, and businessman. He is also known as the first and only president of the Negros Republic from 1898 to 1901, and for leading the Negros Revolution alongside Juan Araneta.
The Negros Revolution, commemorated and popularly known as the Fifth of November or Negros Day, was a political movement that in 1898 created a government on Negros Island in the Philippines, ending Spanish control of the island and paving the way for a republican government run by the Negrense natives. The newly established Negros Republic lasted for approximately three months. American forces landed on the island unopposed on February 2, 1899, ending the island's independence. Negros was then annexed to the Philippine Islands on 20 April 1901.
Custard tarts or flan pâtissier/parisien are a baked pastry consisting of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard.
A lemon tart is a dessert dish, a variety of tart. It has a pastry shell with a lemon flavored filling.
Buko pie, sometimes anglicized as coconut pie, is a traditional Filipino baked young coconut (malauhog) pie. It is considered a specialty in the city of Los Baños, Laguna located on the island of Luzon.
Lacson is a Filipino surname with deep historical roots originating in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental, and with branches extending to Cavite and Pampanga. They are a prominent family involved in business, politics, real estate, and agriculture. The surname "Lacson" is a transliteration of the Chinese-Spanish name "la̍k-sun," influenced by Spanish orthography. It is derived from the Hokkien language, combining the elements 六 and 孫 which has also been spelled as Laxon and Laczon by the Spaniards.
Ancestral houses of the Philippines or Heritage Houses are homes owned and preserved by the same family for several generations as part of the Filipino family culture. It corresponds to long tradition by Filipino people of giving reverence for ancestors and elders. Houses could be a simple house to a mansion. The most common ones are the "Bahay na Bato". Some houses of prominent families had become points of interest or museums in their community because of its cultural, architectural or historical significance. These houses that are deemed of significant importance to the Filipino culture are declared Heritage House by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), previously known as the National Historical Institute (NHI) of the Philippines. Preservation is of utmost importance as some ancestral houses have come into danger due to business people who buy old houses in the provinces, dismantle them then sell the parts as ancestral building materials for homeowners wishing to have the ancestral ambiance on their houses. These ancestral houses provide the current generation a look back of the country's colonial past through these old houses.
The Cesar Lacson Locsin Ancestral House is a heritage house known to be the home of El Ideal Bakery, the oldest bakery along Rizal and Eusebio Streets, National Highway, Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The bakery is known for its guapple pie and several other local delicacies and sweets.
Hacienda Rosalia, also known as Hacienda Santa Rosalia, is a compound where the ancestral home mansion of Gaston family and the Church of Cartwheels are located. It is situated in Manapla, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The mansion was built in 1930s.
The Lacson Ruins are the remains of the ancestral mansion of Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson and Maria Braga Lacson. It is situated in Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The mansion was built in early 1900s and inspired by Italian architecture.
Pie in American cuisine has roots in English cuisine and has evolved over centuries to adapt to American cultural tastes and ingredients. The creation of flaky pie crust shortened with lard is credited to American innovation.
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