Special Apple Pie

Recipe Ingredients

		Crust
1 3/4 cups	109g / 3.8oz	All-purpose flour
1/4 cup	49g / 1.7oz	Sugar
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter
2 tablespoons	30ml	Butter
1/4 cup	59ml	Water or apple cider
		Filling
8		McIntosh apples - peeled, cored and sliced
1 2/3 cups	394ml	Sour cream
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Sugar
1/3 cup	20g / 0.7oz	All-purpose flour
1		Egg
2 teaspoons	10ml	Vanilla
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Salt
		Topping
1 cup	146g / 5.1oz	Chopped walnuts
1/2 cup	31g / 1.1oz	All-purpose flour
1/3 cup	53g / 1.9oz	Brown sugar - firmly packed
1/3 cup	65g / 2.3oz	Granulated sugar
1 tablespoon	15ml	Cinnamon
1		Salt
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Butter - room temperature

Recipe Instructions

For Crust: Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl. Cut in butter using pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add water and toss mixture gently with fork until evenly moistened, Gather gently into ball. Transfer to lightly floured board and roll into circle slightly larger than a deep 10-inch pie plate. Ease pastry into pan and flute high edge. Set aside.

For filling: Preheat oven to 450F. Combine all ingredients in large bowl and mix well. Spoon into crust. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350F and continue baking until filling is slightly puffed and golden brown, about 40 minutes. (If edges of crust begin to brown too quickly, cover with strips of aluminum foil.) For topping: Meanwhile, combine walnuts, flour, sugars, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl and mix well. Blend in butter until mixture is crumbly. Spoon over pie and bake 15 minutes longer.

Source:
The Salt Box Restaurant - Ocean City, New Jersey Favorite Restaurant Recipes - ISBN:0-89535-100-5

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