The BEST Apple Pie Recipe

I love making apple pie. Love eating it too. And, it can be very easy to make however, in the past when I've simply cut up some apples and baked them with the rest of the ingredients, the apples come out crunchy. I finally found a recipe that requires sauteeing the apples FIRST and re-applying the cooking juice back INTO the pie. Just follow the recipe. You'll see for yourself!

Rosy Apple Pie Filling

¾ cup sugar

½ cup water

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

5 medium cooking apples (about 5 cup apple slices) Mix with Granny Apple and Rome, Gala or Fuji which is a sweeter apple to the tart Granny Apple

1 Tbs flour

1 tsp lemon juice

1 Tbs butter or margarine

In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, water, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pare, core and slice apples. Add to sugar mixture. Simmer until apples are soft. Drain and save syrup. Blend flour into cooled syrup and add lemon juice. Spread apples in a pastry pie shell. Pour syrup over apples. Dot with butter. Cover with top crust or crumb mixture. If using a top crust, make slits in top pie crust so steam can escape. 

Bake at 400 degrees F about 30 minutes until desired browness. Makes (1) pie.


TIP: Do not over cook in skillet, especially if you slice the apples thin. They need to maintain some crispiness or it will come out like apple sauce pie.

    

Crumb Topping

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 cup butter, diced

In a medium bowl, mix together the sugar and flour. Mix in butter with a fork or stand mixer just until the topping is crumbly. Top your pie before baking.