Today it’s an unshakeable part of food culture in the Florida Keys and Key West. While that may be the first official appearance of key lime pie in a corporately supported setting, local history in Key West is stronger and the belief in the pie’s pure origins in the Keys is more important. If you jump on Wikipedia you’ll see a slightly different story with a nod to the local history, but it states that key lime pie was created in a test kitchen for a sweet and condensed milk produced in the 1930s. And those are the ingredients of key lime pie: all historically common and available in Key West. They also have a lot of chickens producing lots of eggs.
Down in the keys, until the Overseas Highway was completed, they mostly only had canned milk available, including sweet and condensed milk (invented in the 1850s). We have one here at our house in Saint Augustine and it never stops producing. They grow well and a single bush or tree makes A LOT of limes each year.
KEY WEST KEY LIME PIE FULL
I’ve got the full scoop and ultimately, what I think is the most accurate history based on my own research in person and through online sources.īasically, key limes have been readily available in Florida since the 1500s when the Spanish first brought them in. Locals in the Florida Keys will tell you that it’s been a staple in Key West since the 1850s, but then sources on the internet want to date the official version of key lime pie like we know today to the 1930s. If you want a fun research project, try to dig up the actual history of key lime pie. History of Key Lime Pie in the Florida Keys
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