New Hampshire Maple Apple Pecan Pie Food

NEW HAMPSHIRE MAPLE APPLE PECAN PIE

Steps:

• 1. For the crust: Dice butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare flour mixture.
• 2. Place flour, salt, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the butter and shortening. Pulse 8-12 times until the butter is the size of peas.
• 3. With the machine running, pour the ice water in through the processor feed and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball.
• 4. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
• 5. Roll the dough on a well-floured board into a circle, rolling from center to edge, turning and flouring the dough to make sure it doesn't stick to the board.
• 6. Then, fold dough in half, place in the pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan.
• 7. Filling: Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit.
• 8. Peel, core, and slice apples very thin.
• 9. In a small bowl, mix together the sugar, flour, vanilla bean, salt, and cinnamon.
• 10. Place one layer of apples in the pie crust and sprinkle with 2 tsp of the sugar mixture. Repeat the process until all the sugar has been added.
• 11. Crumb Topping: Mix together all crumb topping ingredients with a fork until crumbly.
• 12. Cover filling with crumb topping.
• 13. Bake in the preheated oven at 375° for 30 minutes.
• 14. Turn pie in oven and cover edges with aluminum foil and continue to bake an additional 30 minutes.
• 15. Bring 1/2 cup pure NH Maple syrup to a boil; continue to cook until a candy thermometer inserted into it indicates "soft ball" temperature, about 235°-240°F.
• 16. Drizzle maple over pie.
• 17. Whipped topping: In a mixing bowl, beat whipping cream and 2 tbsp maple syrup until firm peaks form.
• 18. Cool pie. Decorate inside edge of pie and peak of pie with maple whipped cream and additional pecan halves.

MAPLE APPLE PIE

Steps:

• 7 to 8 T cold water Preheat oven to 375 degrees. For crust, combine flour, baking powder and salt in large mixing bowl. Cut in Crisco shortening with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is uniform. Sprinkle water in, 1 tbsp. at a time, until dough forms a ball. Divide dough into 2 equal parts.
• On lightly floured surface, roll bottom crust into circle 1/8" thick and 1/2" larger than and inverted 9" pie plate. Gently, ease crust into greased plate, being careful not to stretch dough. Trim edge even with plate.
• For filling, microwave apple slices on high for 2 minutes. Stir; repeat procedure twice or until apples begin to soften. Set aside.
• In separate microwaving bowl, combine maple syrup and cornstarch.
• Microwave 2 minutes; stir. Repeat procedure until mixture starts to thicken. Add the thickened mixture to apples. Toss lightly until apples are well coated; set aside to cool. Spoon cooled Apple filling into unbaked pastry shell.
• For nut filling, combine pecans, syrup and butter in microwaving bowl. Microwave on high 1 minute, stir and continue to microwave an additional minute on medium setting. Stir to break up mixture.
• Spread nut mixture on top of apple filling.
• On lightly floured surface, roll out top crust the same as bottom. Carefully,lift top crust onto filled pie;trim 1/2" beyond edge of pie plate. Fold top edge under crust. Crimp edges or flute as desired. Slit top crust with knife to allow steam to escape. Bake at 375 degrees for 60 minutes or until apples start to bubble. Brush top of pie with maple syrup; continue to bake and additional 5 minutes.