How Do You Like Them Apples?

by Monika Darby

Sitting around the kitchen table 10 years ago, Library Aide Christine Alexander fell in love.

She was having dinner with her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend at his house. It was time for dessert, a delicious homemade apple pie.

Alexander took her first bite, and automatically fell in love.

“I just had to have it,” Alexander said about the apple pie recipe.

Ever since that day, Alexander has made an apple pie using that recipe every year.

For her apple pie, she uses Jongold apples or Cortland apples. She gets the apples at an orchard during apple season because they taste the best.

The apple pie is baked in a brown paper bag, but Alexander says that it doesn’t affect the taste because she’s baked it without the brown bag also.

Alexander said she doesn’t know what makes it taste so different from other apple pies, besides the fact that the crust is made with flour.

“It’s just so good,” said Alexander about the apple pie.

Brown Bag Apple Pie

Crust:

1 ½ c. flour

1 ½ tsp. sugar

½ c. canola oil

2 Tbsp. cold milk

Combine ingredients and pat into 9 “ pie plate.

Filling:

5 c. peeled and sliced apples

(Mac, Cortland, or Jonagold)

½ c. sugar

3 tbsp. flour

½ tsp. nutmeg

½ tsp. cinnamon

Combine dry ingredients and toss

with sliced apples. Place in

unbaked pie shell.

Topping:

½ c. flour

½ c. unsalted butter

½ c. sugar

Crumble together with fingers

or fork. Sprinkle over top of pie.

Place pie in brown grocery bag and seal (fold ends over bag and fasten with paper clips). Bake at 350

degrees for 1 ½ hours. Don’t peek!

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