Apple Crunch Pie

(from kjones28’s recipe box)

Thanksgiving
The trick to this pie is cutting the sugared and spiced granny smith apples into thin slices and spiraling them in the deep-dish pie shell. Then they’re topped w/ a crumb topping and baked.

Categories: Desserts, Pie

Ingredients

  • 1 (9inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust
  • 1 c. flour
  • 1/2 c. packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 c white sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 c. butter
  • 8 Jonagolds & McIntosh apples, peeled/cored/sliced
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/3 c. sugar or less
  • 3 tbsp flour
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg

Directions

  1. Place rack in lowest position in oven.

  2. Heat to 450

  3. TOPPING:

  4. Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 c. brown sugar, 1/2 c. white sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon; cut in butter until mixture is moist and crumbly, and clumps together easily.

  5. FILLING:

  6. Toss thinly sliced apples into bowl with white sugar, lemon juice, 1 tsp cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle in flour and stir until apples are evenly coated.

  7. Layer apples in pie shell. Layer higher in the middle.

  8. Pour leftover juice from apple mixture over top.

  9. Pat brown sugar topping evenly over top to make crust.

  10. Place pie on cookie sheet in oven to catch drippings.

  11. Bake for 15 min.

  12. REDUCE TEMP to 350 and bake for 45 min – 1 hour, until center of pie has no resistance.

  13. If top starts to get too dark, cover with foil.

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