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North Georgia's Apple Treats: Apple Bread and Fried Apple Pies

North Georgia's Apple Treats: Apple Bread and Fried Apple Pies

Ellijay Apple Bread and Fried Apple Pies

North Georgia, especially the Ellijay area, is known for apples!  Combine this with southern cooking (meaning sweet and fried) and you get two locally famous treats: The Ellijay apple bread and the fried apple pie.

 

 

Ellijay Apple Bread or North Georgia Apple Bread is similar to apple/raisin bread, but without the raisins, and with a lighter, almost sourdough like texture.  Dripping with an icing and with apple throughout is very sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. It's well worth trying!

 

 

 

 

 

The fried apple pie, on the other hand, like the Moon Pie, may be an acquired taste unique to native Southerners. It is like it sounds... a fired apple pie.  Take apple pie filling, wrap it in dough, and deep fry it.  Still warm from the fryer it tastes a bit like cinnamon chunky applesauce inside a doughnut...  It's not bad... just ... different. And probably one of the few ways you could make apples unhealthy for you.

 

I swear if Georgians could figure out how to batter dip and deep fry Coca Cola, they would!

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Also, see our pages on tips for picking apples at a farm, easy illustrated directions to make applesauce, apple butter, apple jelly and apple pie; the guide to apple festivals and our guide to apple varieties!