| Recipe: | "Brown Bag" French Apple Pie |
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| Number of Servings: | 1 |
| Difficulty: | N/A |
| Ingredients: | 1 1/2 cup(s) All-Purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup(s) shortening
5 tbsp ICE water
8 cup(s) apples [peeled & sliced]
1/4 cup(s) granulated sugar
1/2 tsp nutmeg , Ground
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon , Ground
1/3 cup(s) butter
Vanilla ice cream
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| Directions: | Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
To make the pie: 1) Combine the first measure of flour, salt and shorteningusing a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs, then stirin the water a little at a time, using a fork, and form the dough into a
ball. 2) Roll out the pastry dough on a lightly floured board. Roll toan 11" or 12" diameter and fit into a 9" pie pan fluting the edges. 3)
Combine the sugar, the second measure of flour, the cinnamon, the nutmeg
and the lemon juice in a large bowl then toss the apple slices in the
mixture and arrange them in the pie crust.
To make the topping: 4) Combine the sugar and flour in a bowl and cut in
the butter using a pastry cutter then sprinkle the topping over the apple
filling. 5) Place the pie in the LARGE paper bag and place the paper
bag on a baking sheet and loosely fold the open end of the bag under. Bake
until the apples are tender (50-60 minutes). 6) Carefully remove the pie
from the bag ~ CAUTION: WATCH OUT FOR THE STEAM COMING OUT OF THE BAG! 7)
Serve warm with generous portions of vanilla ice cream.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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