Pie, Apple w/ Sweet Crust

By fireandfrost

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 3 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 4 sprinkles cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups butter-flavored shortening
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 7 tablespoons water
• Filling:
• 10 cups apples, peeled and sliced
• 2 cups sugar
• 5 tablespoons flour
• 3 dashes cinnamon
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons vanilla
• 1 dash nutmeg

Details

Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 31mins
Adapted from QVC.com

Preparation

Step 1

Crust:
Mix flour, salt, sugar and cinnamon. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Sprinkle vanilla then water, one tablespoon at a time, over mixture. Knead dough until it is soft. You may have to add more water, but add it slowly. Separate into two balls.

Filling:
Stir all ingredients together.

Heat oven to 350 F.

Roll out one dough ball for bottom of pie. Place in 12-inch cast-iron pan. Add apple filling.

Roll out remainder of dough and cover apples. Fold over edges to seal and reinforce by forking those closed edges.

Slit top of pie with a knife all the way around so it can breathe. Sprinkle top of pie with sugar and cinnamon.

Bake for one hour and fifteen minutes.