Apple Crumble Pie
Who doesn’t love a slice of good old apple pie?
Apple Crumble Pie
Print RecipeIngredients
Fruit Filling
- 1 homemade pie crust, see below
- ⅔ cup sugar
- ¼ cup all-purpose unbleached flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon allspice
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 6 cups cooking apples (Spy, Golden Delicious, Cortland, or Granny Smith), peeled and very thinly sliced
Crumble Topping
- ¾ cup all-purpose unbleached flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- ⅓ cup butter, cut in cubes
No Fail Pie Crust
- 5-7 tablespoons ice-cold water
- 1 egg
- 3 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups shortening or lard, well-chilled
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
Instructions
- Make the pie crust. Place some ice cubes in a bowl to melt, making ice-cold water.
- In a small bowl, beat an egg with a whisk.
- In a large bowl, stir flour and salt together. Cut in shortening (or lard) and egg into the flour mixture with a pastry blender (or two forks if you don’t have one) until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
- Add 5 tablespoons of ice-cold water and vinegar. Stir together gently until all of the ingredients are incorporated, adding more water if needed. It should form a firm, soft, but not overly-stiff, dough.
- Separate the dough in half. Form two evenly sized balls of dough.
- On a floured surface, roll out one ball of dough, starting at the center and working your way out. (Sprinkle some flour over top of the dough if it’s a bit too sticky.) Roll it about a ½ inch larger in diameter than your pie pan.
- Center the rolling pin in the middle of the circle of crust. Gather each side up and fold over the rolling pin so you can transfer it to the pie pan. Gently press the dough against the corners of the pan.
- Go around the pie pan crimping the dough to make a clean edge and set aside.
- Wrap the other half of the dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator or freezer for future use.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- In a large bowl, mix sugar, ¼ cup flour, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt. Toss in apples and mix well. Spoon fruit mixture into a pie shell.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix ¾ cup flour and brown sugar. Cut in butter until the mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over the apples.
- Bake at 400°F on the bottom rack of the oven for 35-40 minutes until the apples are tender.
- Serve warm with vanilla or caramel ice cream for the deluxe version.
Notes
Be sure to use a tart cooking apple. Eating apples such as red delicious will not work.
Servings: 8 slices
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