My Favorite Apple Pie

By cecelia26_

Ingredients

• Apple Filling:
• Pastry for double crust pie
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2/3 cup flour
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg
• dash salt
• 6 baking apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced, cut into pieces
• 8 oz unsweetened applesauce
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbl butter, cut into small pieces
• Pie Topping:
• 2 Tbl flour
• 2 Tbl sugar
• 1/8 tsp cinnamon
• dash nutmeg
• dash salt
• 1 Tbl butter, softened

Details

Adapted from cookiescakespiesohmy.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400°. Line 9″ deep dish pie plate with bottom crust. In small bowl mix sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg. In large bowl, combine prepared apples, applesauce, and lemon juice. Gently stir in dry ingredients until well mixed. Spoon apple filling into crust lined pie plate. Dot with pieces of butter. Cover pie with top crust and crimp edges. Mix topping ingredients, flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and softened butter until crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over top crust and make a few vents with knife to allow steam to vent.

Bake for 10 minutes, then turn heat down to 350° and bake for about 45-55 minutes more. Cover with foil if starts to get too brown.

Hint: The best way I have found to get a nice clean slice, is to make pie early enough so it can cool and set up (refrigerate if necessary). Then, if you want to eat warm pie, cut a nice clean piece, heat in microwave just to warm and serve. If you serve a fruit pie right from the oven, delicious but most of the time doesn’t hold its shape.