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Special Apple Pie

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Servings: 8
Categories: Apples / Desserts / Pies & Pastries

Ingredients:
    -----CRUST-----
1 3/4  cups  All-purpose flour
1/4  cup  Sugar
1  teaspoon  Cinnamon
1/2  teaspoon  Salt
1/2  cup  Butter
2  tablespoons  Butter
1/4  cup  Water or apple cider
    -----FILLING-----
8    McIntosh apples, peeled, cored & slic
1 2/3  cups  Sour cream
1  cup  Sugar
1/3  cup  All-purpose flour
1    Egg
2  teaspoons  Vanilla
1/2  teaspoon  Salt
    -----TOPPING-----
1  cup  Chopped walnuts
1/2  cup  All-purpose flour
1/3  cup  Brown sugar, firmly packed
1/3  cup  Granulated sugar
1  tablespoon  Cinnamon
1  pinch  Salt
1/2  cup  Butter, room temperature

Directions:
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 450 F. Combine all ingredients in large bowl and mix well. Spoon into crust. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 F 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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