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Desserts · Fruit · Holiday Fare

French Apple Creme Pie

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Taken again from the Gooseberry Recipes, a great pie for the cooler days that will soon be here. Surely, cooler days are coming, right?

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

2 unbaked pie shells

Apple Filling:

3/4 cup sugar

2 Tables flour

1/2 teas cinnamon

1/2 teas nutmeg

1 Tables lemon zest, grated

5 cups Granny Smith applies, peeled and sliced

4 tables butter

Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon zest in a large bowl. Add apples and stir to coat. Turn into one of the pie shells and dot with slices of the butter.  Top the pie with the remaining pie crust and cut a 2″ slit in the center of the crust for the air to escape while pie bakes.e ( usually sprinkle a little sugar over the pie crust before putting it in the oven.)

Bake for 10 minutes at 425 and then 30-35 minutes at 375. While the pie is baking, cook the crème sauce

2 eggs, beaten

1/2 cup sugar

1 tables lemon juice

3 oz package of cream cheese

1/2 cup sour cream

In a saucepan, combine eggs, sugar and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Add cream cheese and sour cram. Take off heat and stir until well combined. Pour over slices of the apple pie when serving.

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Skillet Apple Pie

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All I can say is this….it was the best apple pie we had ever had and our friends who share it said the same thing. The brown sugar-butter sauce in the bottom of the skillet under the crust just oozes the best buttery flavor and you just stand there and scrape all that sauce out with a spoon. My sister-in-law had us over for Christmas Eve breakfast, and as we were just standing there talking, she began to make this pie for their dinner, so I helped peel apples and began to read over the recipe. After taking a picture of it to bring home, I decided that afternoon that I was going to make it Christmas day for our dinner. I am so glad I did.

Ingredients:

1 large iron skillet

2 pounds of Granny Smith apples

2 pounds of Braeburn apples

1 tables flour

2 teas cinnamon

3/4 cup granulated sugar (I used all light brown)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup firmly brown sugar

1 (14 oz) package refrigerated pie crusts (I used Betty Crocker box pie crust mix that you add water and roll out, I love the flakiness of this brand instead of the refrigerated ones)

2 tables granulated sugar

Preheat oven to 350. Peel apples and cut into 1/2″ slices. Toss apples with cinnamon, flour and the 3/4 cup sugar (be it granulated or brown sugar, your choice, but use the brown, it is so good). Set aside.

Melt butter in a 10″ cast iron over medium heat; add the 1 cup of brown sugar and cook, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and place 1 piecrust in skillet over brown sugar mixture. Spoon apples onto crust and top with remaining crust. Sprinkle the 2 tables granulated sugar over the piecrust and cut 4 to 5 slits in top pie crust to allow steam to escape.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour to 1 hr and 10 min or until golden brown and bubbly.* (sometimes it might be necessary to place strips of aluminum foil around edges of pie crust to prevent over browning) I placed the skillet on a sheet of aluminum foil before placing in oven to avoid spills going over bottom of oven. Cool on a wire rack for about 30 min before serving with ice cream.

Desserts · Fruit · Holiday Fare

Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

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Looking up a recipe for a friend, I came across this pie recipe that I had forgotten. It is so simple and it will make you the star of the show when you bring it to any holiday dinner. BTW, I want to pass along a tip. A friend came to dinner the other night, bringing with her a great cherry pie. Between she, her husband, Randy and I, we each ate 1/4 of the entire pie. The crust was delicious and until yesterday, I didn’t realize that the crust was a box mix from Betty Crocker. She said that is all she uses and all you do is add water and roll. The reason I have never liked bought pie crusts is they taste so salty and just never had that homemade taste, but this one, oh my, this one was truly a great crust and I really didn’t guess that it wasn’t home made. So look for it on your grocer’s shelves. (Do I sound like a commercial or what)? Anyway, back to the recipe. Using a unbaked pie crust, place 7-10 apples, (cored, peeled and sliced) into a 9″ unbaked pie crust. If using a frozen pie crust, get the deep dish and be sure you place on a rimmed baking tray to bake as it will bubbly over.

Mix 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 teas cinnamon, 1/8 teas cloves. Sprinkle over apples.

Sprinkle 1 tables water or fresh lemon juice if you prefer over the top of apples.

Crumb Crust:

1/2 sugar

3/4 cup flour

1 stick butter

(I added another teaspoon of cinnamon to this crumb mixture as we love cinnamon)

Mix together the sugar and flour. Cut the butter into the sugar and flour using a pastry blended or 2 forks or food processor until mixture resembles crumbs. Sprinkle over pie.

Bake at 400 for 40-45 minutes. If pie begins to brown to much, cover lightly with foil.

This pie is served every Fall in Pennsylvania  Dutch country. A combination of Granny Smith and red, such as Cortland or Mcintosh works best.

Serve warm with cinnamon ice cream.

Once you serve this, it will become a holiday tradition at your house.