Mile-High Apple Pie & Double Crust Pastry Recipe

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Mile-High Apple Pie & Double Crust Pastry
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Directions:

  1. .Pastry: Combine flour and salt in large bowl and cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
  2. Sprinkle ice water over mixture a tablespoon at a time and mix lightly with a fork, just until pastry holds together and leaves side of bowl clean.
  3. Roll out, half at a time, on lightly floured pastry cloth wrapped around a wooden board, with a rolling pin covered with a floured pastry stocking, to a 12 round.
  4. Loosen pastry from pastry cloth and wrap around rolling pin.
  5. Transfer to a 9 pie plate.
  6. Fill and bake, following individual recipe.
  7. PIe: Pare, quarter, and core apples and cut into very thin slices (a food processor does this very quickly).
  8. Combine sugar, flour, nutmeg, and salt in a small bowl.
  9. Sprinkle part of the sugar mixture into the bottom of pastry.
  10. Add sliced apples, sprinkling with sugar mixture and piling into a tower in center of pie plate.
  11. Cut butter into tiny pieces and sprinkle over apples.
  12. Squeeze lemon juice over apples.
  13. Roll out remaining pastry to a 13 round on lightly floured pastry cloth or board and cut a 4 inch cross in the center of pastry.
  14. Transfer pastry to top of apples, using rolling pin.
  15. Open cross in center of pastry to make a hole.
  16. Trim overhang to 1 inch; turn under and flute.
  17. Roll out tiny pieces of pastry trims into ropes and shape into the letter A on side of pie.
  18. Cut slits around top pastry for steam to escape.
  19. Brush pastry with cream or milk and sprinkle with coarse or granulated sugar.
  20. Place pie plate on a large cookie sheet.
  21. Bake in 375 degree oven, covering pastry with aluminum foil if it darkens too quickly, 1 hour or until juice bubbles up.
  22. Cool in pie plate on wire wrack.
  23. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 297.07 Kcal (1244 kJ)
Calories from fat 161.9 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.99g 28%
Cholesterol 14.88mg 5%
Sodium 254.13mg 11%
Potassium 50.6mg 1%
Total Carbs 30.5g 10%
Sugars 9.18g 37%
Dietary Fiber 1.01g 4%
Protein 2.96g 6%
Vitamin C 1.6mg 3%
Iron 0.4mg 2%
Calcium 16.3mg 2%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 447.72 Kcal (1875 kJ)
Calories from fat 244 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 27.11g 28%
Cholesterol 22.42mg 5%
Sodium 383.01mg 11%
Potassium 76.25mg 1%
Total Carbs 45.97g 10%
Sugars 13.84g 37%
Dietary Fiber 1.53g 4%
Protein 4.46g 6%
Vitamin C 2.4mg 3%
Iron 0.6mg 2%
Calcium 24.6mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 7.2
    Points
  • 8
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

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