Dutch Apple Pie
 
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 1 pre-made frozen crust, or use your own favorite family pie crust recipe
  • Filling:
  • 5 cups diced apples (peeled)
  • ½ c. sugar
  • ¼ c. brown sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. flour
  • ¾ tsp. cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • (Optional: if you have a very sweet apple, add 1 Tbsp. lemon juice. Our MacIntosh apples are already a nice tart apple, so I omitted.)
  • Topping:
  • ¾ c. flour
  • ⅓ c. softened butter (not melted)
  • ¼ c. sugar
  • ¼ c. brown sugar
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
  2. Peel and dice your apples. This is, by far, the most time-consuming part of the recipe. Once this step is done, you are almost finished. If you are using large apples, 5 cups will be about 4 apples.
  3. Sift together all the dry filling ingredients. Then, stir in the apples. Mix it well.
  4. Add to prepared pie crusts. If you are using frozen crusts, you don't need to do anything special, you can use them straight from the freezer.
  5. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, sugars, and cinnamon for the topping. Cut in butter until it has a crumbly texture.
  6. Crumble topping evenly onto pie. I find that firmly packing a handful and crumbling it into small pieces gives the best texture, rather than sprinkling it on.
  7. Place pie on a foil lined sheet, and bake for 45-55 minutes. (The juice may boil and overflow, and it's much better to catch that on disposable foil!)
  8. Cool, serve, and enjoy!
Recipe by Happy Hour Projects at https://happyhourprojects.com/dutch-apple-pie/