Recipe: Grandma Ople's Apple Pie

As a follow-up to my last post, I wanted to share the recipe my mother and I used to make apple pies from the apples we picked at Lewis Farm Market over the weekend. We found a recipe that seemed sweet and simple here!

Grandma Ople's Apple Pie

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 8 granny smith apples - peeled, cored, sliced (we used Macintosh)
• 9 inch pie pan

Directions:

 Peel, core, and slice up your apples. (We used my mom's apple-peeler-corer-slicer, which worked phenomenally)

 

Melt butter in a sauce pan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add white sugar, brown sugar and water; bring to a boil. Reduce temperature, and simmer 5 minutes. 

Meanwhile, place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.

Bake 15 minutes at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes.

 We decided to make one pie with Pillsbury dough, and one with homemade. We had so many apples, we wanted to make sure we used them up!

 Hope you enjoy. :)

xoxo,

Laura