John's Apple Pie

 John's Apple Pie





Recipe

1 1/2 C. Flour

1/2 C. Sugar

1/4 C. Brown Sugar

3/4 C. Butter

Mix ingredients together.  Spray pie tin with cooking spray.  

Divide crust into two balls.  Put one ball in the pie dish and leave the other ball in the bowl, cover with saran wrap and refrigerate the bowl. 

Form the bottom pie crust with the dough.  Don't press the crust down too firmly into the pie dish or the crust will be hard.  

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Bake pie crust for 15 min.  Set aside to cool.

Peel skin off apples and discard.  Slice the apples with a potato peeler into this slices right into the pie crust.  Add a sprinkle of cinnamon over the entire pie after each apple or two, or whenever you can't see the cinnamon anymore.  Add apples, alternating the types of apples, until the pie dish is filled to an overflowing mound of apple slices.  

Types of apples to use:

1-2 Fuji

2 Granny Smith

2 Gala

1 Pink Lady

Take the bowl out of the fridge and crumble the remaining dough over the mound of apples, covering the entire pie. 

Sprinkle the entire pie with cinnamon.  

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 min, or until top is bubbly and the apples are soft when a fork is stuck into them.  

If the crust starts to get too brown, cover the crusts with strips of tin foil.  

I like to make these pies for Thanksgiving.  The kids enjoy slicing the apples into the pie crusts, making these pies a family activity.  These pies can be made the night before Thanksgiving to save time, but, they are best served hot with vanilla ice cream.  

Recipe from Uncle John Putt, altered slightly by myself.  


The dough is ready to form into balls!


Sprinkling cinnamon as you layer the apples creates a yummy flavor in your pie!



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