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- From: cory@garmr.waterloo-rdp.on.ca (Cory Albrecht)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Amish Style Apple Pie
- Date: 16 Apr 1995 21:29:36 -0600
- Organization: (Fidonet)
- Message-ID: <1a7_9504100209@garmr.waterloo-rdp.on.ca>
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- I learned this recipe from my Mother, who leaned it from hers, etc.,
- etc., and from what I know about the Amish in southern Ontario, the
- great number of whom are my relatives (Albrecht, Nafziger, Erb, Gerber,
- Schulz, Steinman(n), Roth, Kipfer, Kropf, Lichti, and on and on...)
- this seems to be a relatively common way to make apple pie. The recipe
- is pretty much similar to the one found in the "Mennonite Community
- Cookbook" by Mary Emma Showalter, (c) 1950,1957,1978.
-
- Ingredients:
- - 3 apples
- - 1 9" pie shell
- - 1 tablespoon flour
- - 2/3 cup brown sugar - 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- - 2 tablespoons milk
- - 2 tablespoons butter
-
- Directions:
- - mix sugar, flour, butter and cinnamon together until it is crumbly
- - place a little of mixture in bottom of shell
- - peel apples, core and slice.
- - lay slices in pie shell, overlapping and up against the side in a
- circle, repeat until pie shell is filled
- - place rest of mixture evenly on top of apples, but don't pack it
- down
- - pour milk evenly over top of mixture (You might want a little extra)
- - (optionally) sprinkle a little extra cinnamon on top
- - bake at 400F for 45-50 minutes
-
- Notes:
- Be careful with adding extra milk - you can too easily make it too
- soggy! If you skimped on the apples, you might want to cut back on the
- milk a wee bit. Cooking apples aren't necessary, but if you do use one
- of the larger, harder varieties (like Matsu or Delicious) you might
- only need 2 apples. I usually use whatever happens to be in the cold
- cellar unless they've gone _too_ far. Just cut off the worst of the
- brown spots and they are fine and dandy. If you do use smaller, softer
- varieties of apples, again you might want to cut back on the milk a
- little. If you're making a bunch to put some a way for later, put them
- in the freezer without cooking them. While cooking, freezing and
- reheating won't harm the pies or the taste, the sugar mixture can
- become crunchy - almost as if the sugar itself had melted and then
- fused back together as if you were making candy. This pie good either
- hot or cold, but I prefer it fresh from the oven with a scoop of
- vanilla ice cream and some cheddar cheese! Yum!
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