Mom’s Apple Crumb Pie

By admin on April 17th, 2008

apple crumb pie
photo by greggoconnell

You have not had apple pie until you’ve tried apple crumb pie! This is one of my favorite dessert recipes handed down from my family. We serve the pie with a nice healthy chunk of aged sharp cheese and a large scoop of vanilla ice cream. I did some research and found that serving the pie with sharp cheese originates from Yorkshire, England. The famous saying goes: “Apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.”

PIE CRUST:

2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup shortening
1 egg
2 tbls water
1 tbls dark vineger

Mix last four ingredients together then mix in flour and salt
until blended, form a ball in floured hands devide in two parts sprinkle flour on counter and roll dough out with a rolling pin that is rolled in flour so it dosent stick to pastry. Place in 8 or 9 inch pie plate.

FILLING:

4 large apples (tart)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamin

Mix altogher in a bowl and then spoon into raw piecrust.

TOPPING:

1/2 CUP SUGAR
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup refigherated oleo (not too soft)

Mix sugar and flour in a bowl and then cut in oleo with a fork until crumbly, sprinkle over apples.

Bake in oven at 400 degrees for 40 to 50 mins. until lightly brown.

Serve with aged sharp cheddar cheese and vanilla ice cream!