Categories: Desserts
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, divided
- 3 tablespoons ice water
- 5 granny smith apples
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter
Directions
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In medium chilled bowl, begin dough by sifting together flour and salt.
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Using a pastry blender, cut half of the stick of butter into the flour mixture until it resembles pea like consistency
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Then cut in the remaining half stick of butter, adding 1 tablespoon of water at a time, gently stirring mixture with a fork until dough-like mixture begins forming. Do not overwork dough
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Form dough into disk shape and refrigerate for 1/2 hour.
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Remove dough from refrigerator and roll out to 1/8 inch thickness and 1 inch beyond pan size.
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Place in 9" deep dish pie shell, flute edges and chill.
- Preheat oven to 375
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While dough is chilling, prepare filling and topping.
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In a large bowl, toss together the apples, sugar and cinnamon for filling. Spoon apples into pie shell
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In large bowl, combine the flour and sugar for the topping.
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Cut in the butter using a pastry blender until the desired consistency is achieved.
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Sprinkle topping over apples in pie shell
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Bake for 50 minutes or until apples are soft and the topping is a light brown.
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Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack