It's a long recipe so I just copied and pasted the recipe from www.foodnetwork.com.
Ingredients
- Paula's Perfect Pie Crust, recipe follows
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Dash salt
- 3 1/2 cups peeled, chopped cooking apples
- 1 (16-ounce) jar applesauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons butter, chopped into small pieces
Crunch Topping:
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Dash salt
- 1 tablespoon butter, at room temperature
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Line a 9-inch pie pan with half of dough. Combine the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Stir in the apples, applesauce, and lemon juice. Spoon the apple mixture into pie pan and dot with butter. Cut remaining crust into strips; arrange in a lattice design over top of pie.
For crunch topping:
Combine the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Using a fork, cut in butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over top of crust. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F and continue to bake for about 45 minutes, or until crust and topping are golden brown.
Paula's Perfect Pie Crust:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
3 tablespoons granulated white sugar
1/4 cup vegetable shortening, cold
12 tablespoons butter, (1 1/2 sticks) cold and cubed
1/4 cup to 1⁄2 cup ice water
In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, salt and sugar. Add the shortening and break it up with your hands as you start to coat it all up with the flour. Add the 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.
**It was very helpful to me to watch the video of her doing it first...plus she cracks me up**
Making the Pie Crust:
Flour, Salt and Sugar sifted together.
Cold Butter cubes.
Added to the flour mixture.
Mixed together to resemble "coarse cornmeal"
After the ice water has been added...
Rolled into a disc shape and wrapped in saran wrap.
After being in the refrigerator for over 2 hours.
Rolled out on a flour surface...I think it's important to put flour on the roller as well otherwise the dough will stick.
Not so beautiful in the pie pan...
The Filling:
I forgot to take a lot of pictures while baking...
Apples were sliced and some were chopped. I didn't use as much apple sauce as called for and I used a little more cinnamon than it called for.
Attempting to make a lattice top...
It got a little confusing..
The crumb topping... the reviews recommended doubling it, but I can't remember if I did or not.
On the video she puts an egg wash (2 egg yolks, 1 tbsp milk) over the crust
I would maybe put the crumbly topping on before the top next time, but maybe not. Then just lightly put the egg wash over the crust.
It came out golden brown... I stuck in the freezer for a couple of minutes because I wanted to firm up the juices a bit.
After Bec, Rob, Jay, Frank and I had started eating it. It was really good and I would definitely recommend making it!
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