Thanksgiving Harvest Cranberry Apple Pie Food

THE SIMPLEST CRANBERRY-APPLE CRUMB PIE

Steps:

• Put the cranberries and apples in a large mixing bowl; stir to combine.
• Stir in the sugar, lemon juice, and flour; set aside for 10 minutes.
• Scrape the filling into the chilled pie crust; smooth the top with your hands.
• Place pie on the center rack of a 400° oven; bake for 30 minutes.
• While the pie is baking, make the topping--in a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, and cinnamon; add in the butter and rub it into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs; refrigerate until ready to use.
• Take the pie out of the oven and lower oven temperature to 375°.
• Sprinkle the crumb topping over the filling and press gently to compact.
• Return pie to oven--rotate pie so that the part that faced the back of the oven now faces the front (put a foil-lined baking sheet onto the rack below to catch any spills).
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the topping is golden brown and the juices bubble thickly aroung the edge.
• Put pie on a wire rack to cool for at least 1 hour before serving.

APPLE CRANBERRY PIE

Steps:

• For the crust: Whisk the flour, sugar and salt together in a medium bowl. Using your fingers, work the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles coarse cornmeal mixed with pea-sized bits of cold butter. (If the butter gets too soft, refrigerate the mixture for 10 minutes before proceeding.) Use a fork to stir in the egg and water mixture until the dough just comes together. (If the dough is dry, add up to 1 tablespoon more cold water.) Divide the dough into two equal-sized disks, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour.
• For the filling: Peel, halve and core the apples. Cut each half into 4 wedges and place in a bowl with the lemon juice and cranberries, tossing to combine. Add the sugar and toss again to combine evenly.
• Melt the butter over medium-high heat in a large skillet. Add the apple mixture and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves and the mixture begins to simmer, about 2 minutes. Cover the pan and reduce the heat to medium-low, cooking until the apples soften and release most of their juices and the cranberries have burst, about 7 minutes.
• Strain the apple mixture into a colander set over the bowl, shaking it to collect as much of the juice as possible. Pour the liquid back into the skillet, add the cinnamon and ginger, and simmer over medium heat until thickened and lightly caramelized, about 10 minutes. Return the reduced juice and the apple mixture to the bowl and toss to recombine. Chill the filling until it cools completely, at least an hour and up to 2 days.
• To assemble the pie: On a lightly floured surface, roll each disk into an 11- to 12-inch circle. Lay each dough circle between two pieces of parchment or wax paper on a baking sheet and refrigerate for at least 10 minutes.
• Place a baking sheet on a rack positioned in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees F. Line the bottom of a 9-inch pie dish with one of the dough discs and trim it to leave a 1/2-inch overhang on all sides. Stir the cornstarch into the filling and add it to the pan.
• Use a chef's knife, pizza cutter or fluted dough cutter to cut the second round into 1/2-inch thick strips. Lay strips of dough, evenly spaced, across the entire pie. Weave more strips of dough perpendicular through the previous strips to make a lattice or basket weave design across the entire pie. Trim the excess ends from the strips of dough. Pinch the bottom crust edge and lattice edge together, and flute the edge as desired. Brush the surface of the dough with egg and then sprinkle with sugar. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
• Bake the pie on the preheated baking sheet until the crust is golden, 50 to 60 minutes. If the edges begin to brown too fast, cover them with strips of aluminum foil. Let the pie cool 1 hour before serving. Once completely cooled, the pie keeps well at room temperature (covered) for 24 hours, or refrigerated for up to 4 days.

CRANBERRY APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. On a lightly floured surface, roll one half of dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim even with rim. Refrigerate while preparing filling., In a large bowl, combine the sugar and next 6 ingredients. Add apples and cranberries; toss gently. Spoon filling into prepared pie plate; dot with butter., Roll remaining dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle. Place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edge. Cut slits in top. , Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, 45-50 minutes longer.

APPLE CRANBERRY PIE

Steps:

• Bring cranberries, water and 6 Tbsp. sugar to boil in small saucepan on medium-high heat; simmer on low heat 8 to 10 min. or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Cool slightly.
• Heat oven to 425ºF. Place pie crust in 9-inch pie plate, pleating edge as necessary to fit. Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup of the remaining sugar, egg and vanilla in bowl with mixer until blended; spread onto bottom of crust. Cover with cranberry sauce.
• Peel apples; cut in half. Remove and discard cores. Place apples, cut sides down, on cutting board; cut into thin slices, being careful to not cut all the way through apple to keep all slices for each apple half intact. Arrange over cranberry sauce. Combine cinnamon and remaining 2 Tbsp. sugar; sprinkle over apples.
• Bake 28 to 30 min. or until apples are tender and edge of crust is golden brown.

RUSTIC APPLE AND DRIED CRANBERRY PIE

Steps:

• PASTRY: Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor with a metal chopping blade; pulse to mix.
• Add butter and shortening and pulse 5-8 more times until the mixture looks like coarse oatmeal.
• Sprinkle with 1/2 the water and pulse.
• Gradually add in more of the water in the same manner until the dough holds together when pinched with your fingertips (you may not need all of it).
• On a floured surface, form the dough into a ball and then flatten into a disk.
• Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes and for up to 3 days.
• FILLING: Toss apples, cranberries, 1/3 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, and spices together in a large bowl; set aside.
• BAKING AND ASSEMBLY: Preheat oven to 400°F Roll dough on a floured surface to make a 15 inch circle.
• Fold dough into quarters; place on a large baking sheet and unfold.
• Place filling in the center of the pastry, leaving a 2 1/2 border all around.
• Fold the pastry border over the filling (I fold this in several small sections- some pieces of the crust will overlap each other, and this is just how it should be; remember that it's a rustic pie).
• Brush pastry with egg white and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Pull oven rack out so you can get to the pie; cover the pie with foil and bake for 15 more minutes.
• Cool on baking sheet on a wire rack.
• Cover and store pie at room temperature.

APPLE CRANBERRY PIE

Steps:

• Prepare pie crust according to pkg. directions.
• Cut second crust into 6 or 8 wedges, set aside.
• Heat oven to 425.
• In large bowl combine remaining ingredients, mix lightly.
• Spoon into pie crust.
• Arrange pie crust wedges over berry mixture with points of the wedges meeting in center ( do not overlap).
• Peel back the center points of the pie crust to form petals.
• Gently press the points into the crust.
• Fold outer edges of each wedge under bottom crust.
• Flute.
• Bake at 425 for 40 - 50 minutes or until crust is golden brown and apples are tender.
• TIP: Cover edge of crust with strip of foil during last 10 to 15 minutes of baking if necessary to prevent excessive browning.

CRANBERRY-APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425º.
• Prepare pastry.
• Mix sugar and flour.
• Arrange half of the apples in pastry-lined pie plate.
• Top with cranberries.
• Sprinkle sugar mixture over cranberries.
• Top with remaining apples.
• Dot with margarine.
• Cover with top crust that has slits cut in it; seal and flute.
• Cover edge with 2- to 3-inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning; remove foil during last 15 minutes of baking.
• Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until crust is brown and juice beings to bubble through slits in crust.
• Serve warm with ice cream if desired.

CRANBERRY APPLE PIE

Steps:

• To make the pastry, mix the flour, sugar and salt in a medium bowl.
• Add the butter and cream cheese and cut in with a pastry blender until the particles are very fine.
• Stir in the water, mixing until a ball of dough forms.
• Knead the dough 3 or 4 times on a floured surface into a smooth ball.
• Wrap and chill 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• To make the filling, mix together the apples, cranberries and walnuts.
• Roll out 2/3 of the pastry on a floured surface to a 13-inch circle.
• Use the pastry to line the bottom and sides of an ungreased 10-inch pie plate.
• Fill with the apple mixture.
• To make the custard, beat the egg, flour, sugar, cream and vanilla in a bowl until smooth.
• Pour the mixture evenly over the apple mixture.
• Roll out the remaining pastry to an 11-inch circle and cut into 1/2-inch wide strips.
• Arrange and weave a lattice over the top of the pie.
• Fold the edge of the bottom pastry over the lattice to hold the strips in place.
• Bake 50 to 60 minutes.
• Heat the jelly until it bubbles.
• Spoon the jelly evenly over the top of the pie.
• Cool to lukewarm; cut into wedges.