I've been making this deep dish apple pie recipe for years and easily consider it to be the best apple pie on the planet.
Apple Slab Pie
Baked with a filling of fresh apples and warm spices, there is as much simple joy in preparing this pie as there is in eating it.
Recipe Summary Apple Slab Pie
A good choice if the school or church asks you to bring dessert. Kind of like Dutch apple pie.Ingredients | Apple Pie Recipe Filling
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ tablespoons white sugar
½ cup shortening
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 egg yolks, beaten
4 tablespoons water
8 apples - peeled, cored and cut into thin wedges
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 ¾ cups white sugar
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
⅔ cup brown sugar
⅔ cup butter
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C.) In a large bowl, combine flour sugar, salt and baking powder. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Mix egg yolk and water together and mix into flour until it forms a ball. Roll out to fit the bottom of a 10x15 inch pan.
In a large bowl, combine apples, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons flour, sugar and cinnamon. Pour filling into pie crust and dot with 2 tablespoons butter.
In a medium bowl, combine 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2/3 cup brown sugar and 2/3 cup butter. Cut in the butter until crumbly, then sprinkle over apples.
Bake in the preheated oven for 60 minutes, or until topping is golden brown.
Info | Apple Pie Recipe Filling
prep:
30 mins
cook:
1 hr
total:
1 hr 30 mins
Servings:
15
Yield:
1 - 10x15 inch pie
