1 Ready to Bake Pie Crust
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2t ground nutmeg
1/4t ground cinnamon
pinch of salt
6 cups peeled cored and sliced apples
(4-5 medium sized apples)
Lemon juice (optional)
Crumb Topping
1 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar packed
1/2 cup butter a little soft
1/2 cup oatmeal (optional)
Set the ready to bake pie crust on the counter till its easy to unroll.
Preheat the oven to 350. Put foil on a cookie sheet large enough to hold your pie to bake the pie on.
I like to double the topping for this pie. I like a lot of crisp ;-) Make the topping first and keep in fridge so its cold when you put it over the apples. Mix all topping ingredients together. I just use my fingers till it crumbs up, oatmeal included. Guess you could use the food processor.
Place the ready made pie crust in the pie plate and just pull the edges straight up. No need to fold them over the endge of the pie plate and make some fancy design. Put this in the fridge also to keep cold while you make the filling.
In a small bowl mix the sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg, cinnamon and pinch of salt. Set aside. In another bowl prep the apples. Peel, core and slice apples into bowl. Sprinkle the lemon juice over the apple slices as needed to keep them from turning brown. Add the dry mixture to the apples and mix well. Sometimes I use too many apples but I like it that way. I also like to cut thick slices.
Now your ready to put it all together. Place the sugared apples into the pie shell moving the apples around so they all fit and pile up. Now top with the crumb topping and pile that high too!
Bake pie on foiled covered cookie sheet for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Check it after 1 hour and see how its doing. One time my oven was too hot and kinda burned the topping. Weird. Not sure why that happened, Anyway, check it.
