Brown Bag Apple Pie
2015-10-22 13:42:35
When better dessert than a warm apple pie with locally grown apples.
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Pie
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 9” pie shell, unbaked
- 2 T flour
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 6 med baking apples (you can use several varieties) pared sliced
- 1/3 cup flour
Crust
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup lard-chilled & cut into small pieces
- 3/4 t salt
- 1 stick butter, chilled & cut in to small pieces
- 1/2 t baking powder
- 6 t ICE water
Pie
- Mix ½ cup sugar, 2 Tbs. flour and the cinnamon together and toss with the apples.
- Heap into the pie shell.
- Combine butter, ½ cup sugar and ½ cup flour to make a thin paste.
- Spread paste over apples, coating evenly.
- Place pie in a brown paper bag and close securely with paper clips or staples.
- Place pie in center of the oven rack, taking care that the paper bag does not come in contact with any interior oven surface.
- Bake in pre-heated 400° oven for 1 hour.
- When pie is done, cut away the bag.
Crust
- Sift dry ingredients into bowl.
- With pastry blender, blend in lard and butter until pieces are small pea-sized.
- Add just enough ice water to hold dough together.
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Brown Bag Apple Pie