Apple-Coconut Pie

Recipe Ingredients

3 1/2 cups	829ml	Apples - tart, thinly sliced
3/4 cup	148g / 5.2oz	Sugar
2 tablespoons	30ml	Flour - all-purpose
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
3 1/2 oz	99g	Coconut - flaked
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla extract
2 tablespoons	30ml	Margarine
		Cream Cheese Pastry
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Margarine - softened
6 oz	170g	Cream cheese - softened
2 cups	125g / 4.4oz	Flour - all-purpose
1 pinch		Salt

Recipe Instructions

Line a 10" pie pan with half the pastry rolled 1/8" thick. Arrange apples in unbaked pie shell. Combine sugar, flour, and salt; sprinkle over apples, mixing well. Cover with coconut, sprinkle vanilla over top, and dot with margarine.

Roll out remaining pastry, and place over filling; seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top to allow steam to escape. Bake at 400F for 10 minutes; reduce heat to 300F and bake an additional 35 to 40 minutes.

Cream Cheese Pastry: Combine margarine and cream cheese; mix well. Cut in flour and salt with pastry blender. Shape dough into a ball; chill. Yield: enough pastry for double crust 10" pie.

Source:
Southern Living Magazine, March 1974.

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