Grandma Susan’s Apple Pie has kept the Smith family happy and satisfied for many years. Read more recipes from the Wildwood Family Cookbook here. Bon Appetit!
Grandma Susan Euler Smith’s Apple Pie
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup crisco pie crust
- 3 generous tbsp milk
- 7 tart apples – Granny Smith peel and wedge (cut the seed section out of the middle of each wedge).
Instructions
- Pie Crust:
Mix flour and salt in bowl. Add the crisco on top of flour and salt "cut together until pea size with a pie crust cutteradd three tablespoons of milk in at the "3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock" spotsFork fold all of the milk and form into a ball. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes. - Once chilled, take the pie crust dough out of the fridge. Place it on the pastry mat. Sprinkle extra flour over your rolling pin and begin to roll the dough away and then toward you. When the crust dough is in a large enough circle to fit over the glass pie dish, place the pie dish upside down on the circle of dough so that you can use the mat to flip the crust into the dish. Once the dough is in the dish, go around the rim and scallop the pie crust around the rim.
- Before you fill the pie crust, bake it in the oven at 500 degrees for 5-7 minutes.
- Apples:
7 tart apples – Granny Smith peel and wedge (cut the seed section out of the middle of each wedge). Arrange the apples in a dome in the pie crust. In a side bowl, mix 1/2 cup of sugar , a dash of nutmeg and a dash of salt, Sprinkle this all over the apples inside the pie crust.
Optional but highly recommended: take a stick of butter and cut it up in pads, lay over the apples before you apply the topping. This will melt all over the apples and create a rich taste to the apples. - Topping:
(Key Step!) In a bowl, mix 1 cup of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of flour and a 2/3 cup of butter (soft) Mix all up with your hand to make crumble. Crumble all over the pie, covering all apples. - Bake at 400 degrees until apples collapse and juice bubbles (at least 40 minutes)
- Hint:
if the crumble starts to blacken, put a sheet of tin foil loosely on top.
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American
