Apple tansey is an 18th-century dessert, recorded in a number of American colonial sources, made by frying apples with butter and then pouring a batter of eggs, cream, rose water, nutmeg and sugar over them, and frying until the batter was set.

Contains: Apple
Characteristic of: American cuisine
Categories: Food history
References:
The Prudent Housewife, or compleat English cook, a collection of recipes; Fisher, Lydia, 1899
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History; Ciment, James, 2016

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