As the last of the Farmers Market treats, apples make the best comfort foods taste even better. Even if your weather isn’t cold and gray, you’ll love our version of the classic, Apple Crumb Pie. May you enjoy it around a large dining table full of friends and family!
Ingredients:
For filling:
6-7 C apples*, peeled, cored, sliced
1/2 C sugar
1 T flour
For topping:
1/2 C flour
1/2 C packed brown sugar
2 T butter
Pastry for Single-Crust Pie
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix ingredients for apple filling. Transfer filling to 9″pastry-lined pie plate. Combine flour and brown sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkler over filling being careful to spread evenly over apple filling. Bake in 375° oven for one hour or until topping is golden and apples are tender. Serve warm.
*For apple variety, we like Granny Smith or Pink Lady in late fall, but you can use most varieties as long as they are firm and not too sweet. Best are heartier apples with a lot of acidity.
Her friends call her “Southern Belle.” But with three young children, she’s called “mom” more than anything these days. Debbie started Dede’s Cajun Cuisine in the fall of 2011 after catering a Southern lunch for a funeral at her church. She knew she wanted to share her love of cooking, southern heritage, and specifically, Southern food with her friends and family. The challenge became how to juggle all of that with her first priority of being a mom. Dinner time is always that crazy part of the day when everyone is hungry and tired. Between kid activities, never-ending laundry and the day-to-day grind of life, there isn’t enough time to prepare a meal from scratch.
