Paula Deen Dutch Apple Pie Food

DUTCH APPLE PIE

Steps:

• For the dough: Pulse the flour, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor until combined. Add the butter, and pulse until the mixture resembles yellow cornmeal mixed with pea-sized bits of butter. Add the egg, and pulse until the dough just comes together. (If the dough is very dry, add up to 1 tablespoon cold water.) Remove the dough, gently pat it into a round, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour and up to 2 days.
• For the filling: Meanwhile, put the lemon juice in a medium bowl. Peel and core the apples; cut each in half, and cut each half into 4 wedges. Add the apples and granulated sugar to the bowl with the lemon juice, and toss.
• Melt the butter over medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add the sugared apples, and cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to simmer, about 2 minutes. Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low and cook until the apples soften and release most of their juices, about 7 minutes.
• Strain the apples in a colander over a medium bowl to catch all the juice. Shake the colander to extract as much liquid as possible. Return the juice to the skillet, and simmer over medium heat until it has thickened and lightly caramelized, about 10 minutes.
• Toss the apples with the thickened juice, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Set aside to cool completely. (The cooled filling can be refrigerated for up to 2 days or frozen for up to 6 months.)
• For the streusel topping: Whisk the flour, sugar and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the butter, and rub it into the flour mixture with your fingers until it has been absorbed. Mix in the walnuts.
• To assemble and bake the pie: Position a rack in the lower third of the oven, place a baking sheet on it and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. On a lightly floured work surface, roll the dough disk into a 12-inch circle. Layer it between pieces of parchment or wax paper on a baking sheet, and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes.
• Ease the dough round into a 9-inch pie pan. Fold and crimp the edges as desired. Add the filling, and spread it out to make an even layer. Squeeze handfuls of the streusel topping, and drop clumps of it on top of the filling to completely cover it.
• Bake the pie on the preheated baking sheet until the crust and streusel are golden brown, 50 to 60 minutes. Let it cool on a cooling rack for at least 3 hours before serving. (The pie keeps well, covered, at room temperature for 24 hours or refrigerated for up to 4 days.)

CRUNCH TOP APPLE PIE (PAULA DEEN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of the dough.
• Toss apples with 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a medium-sized bowl.
• Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt in a small bowl. Pour over apples and toss. Stir in applesauce. Spoon this mixture into pie pan and dot with butter.
• Cut remaining crust into strips; using every other one arrange over top of pie. Lattice in remaining strips (going the other direction, crossing over and under every other strip).
• For crunch topping, combine flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Cut in butter with a fork until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over the top of crust.
• Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350°F and continue to bake for about 45 minutes, or until crust and topping are golden brown. (My pie with golden delicious apples was done after 30 minutes at this step, so watch your pie!).
• Note: It helps to make a foil ring to put around pie crust edge to keep it from browning too fast.

CRUNCH TOP APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Paula's Perfect Pie Crust:
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together 2 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon fine salt and 3 tablespoons sugar. Add the shortening and break it up with your hands as you start to coat it with the flour. Add 12 tablespoons of cold butter cubes and work it into the flour with your hands or a pastry cutter. Work it quickly, so the butter doesn't get too soft, until the mixture is crumbly, like very coarse cornmeal. Add the ice water, a little at a time, until the mixture comes together forming a dough. Bring the dough together into a ball. When it comes together stop working it otherwise the dough will get over-worked and tough. Divide the dough in half and flatten it slightly to form a disk shape. Wrap each disk in plastic and chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours. On a floured surface roll each disk out into a 10 to 11-inch circle to make a 9-inch pie.
• Yield: 2 (9-inch) pie crusts
• Preheat oven to 425 °F.
• Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of dough. Combine 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, cinnamon, and a dash of salt in a bowl. Stir in the apples, applesauce, and lemon juice. Spoon the apple mixture into pie pan and dot with 2 tablespoons butter chopped into small pieces. Cut remaining crust into strips; arrange in a lattice design over top of pie.
• For crunch topping:
• Combine 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon sugar and a dash of salt in a bowl. Using a fork, cut in 1 tablespoon room temperature butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over top of crust. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 °F and continue to bake for about 45 minutes, or until crust and topping are golden brown.

MOM'S DUTCH APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Beat one egg and brush into the bottom and sides of the graham cracker pie crust. Cook the pie crust for 5 minutes in the oven at 375 degrees.
• After removing the pie crust from the oven, combine all filling ingredients and spoon into the crust.
• Mix all topping ingredients with a pastry cutter until blended well and crumbly. Top filled pie with topping and bake for 50 minutes at 375 degrees.
• You can use either a regular pastry pie crust, or a graham cracker crust. I use a graham cracker crust because it gives the pie a sweeter, more flavorful taste. I always use a store bought graham cracker crust only because it's faster than making one, however, if you have a great homemade graham cracker crust recipe, the pie will present prettier in a nice pie dish. I usually buy the 9 ounce graham cracker crust. It's a little larger (and will usually be labeled with "2 extra servings" on the package) because by the time you get your topping on the pie it's pretty full.
• If you would prefer to make this recipe gluten free, use a gluten free flour mixture in the filling and the topping mixes. For the crust substitute with either a gluten free pastry, or a gluten free graham cracker crust, or simply bake without the crust in a pan and top with some vanilla ice cream (Edy's Grand French Vanilla is gluten free).
• Yum! Enjoy.

DUTCH APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Fit pie crust into pie plate.
• In a large bowl, mix sliced apples, lemon juice, both sugars,flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Pile into crust.
• Prepare topping:.
• In a medium bowl, with a pastry blender or a fork, mix flour, both sugars, and butter until coarsely crumbled.
• Sprinkle evenly over apples.
• Bake at 375°F for 50 minutes.

DUTCH APPLE PIE

Steps:

• For Crust:.
• Mix flour and salt. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Sprinkle ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time. Toss quickly with a fork, just until dough holds together when pressed into a ball, adding more ice water as needed.
• Divide dough in half. Shape each half into a flattened round, wrap in plastic wrap and chill 30 minutes before rolling out.
• For Filling:.
• In large bowl, combine apples and raisins.
• In small bowl, combine sugar, flour, cinnamon, mace and salt.
• Add to apples and raisins.
• Toss lightly to combine.
• Roll out 1st half of pastry on lightly floured board.
• Fit into a 9 inch pie plate.
• Fill with apple mixture.
• Roll out second half of pastry and fit over apples.
• Moisten rim of bottom crust, press 2 crust together, turn under and crimp edge.
• Cut 2-3 slits in top crust.
• Place on baking sheet in pre heated 425 degree oven.
• Bake 45-50 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling bubbles.
• Cool.
• GLAZE:.
• Mix confectioners sugar and lemon juice and 3 teaspoons of milk, stir until smooth. Add the 4th teaspoon of milk only if needed to make glaze of spreading consistenecy. Spread over top crust of pie.
• ENJOY.