Rustic Apple Pie

Recently I have been thumbing through my Pioneer Woman cookbooks and saw this easy apple pie recipe. Yeah.... I immediately know I need to make this one. What is going ON with this sweet tooth lately?

Almost out of control. Almost. I had to adapt the recipe a bit as I didn’t need two pies in the house. Some good sense prevailed. Oh, and this is more like a tart….not the traditional looking pie.

So, besides the pie making and complaining about the summer heat we have managed to take a shorter ride on the trike. We made the back road trip to Cairo Georgia, just to ride and enjoy the wind and rural scenery. I took some photos while on the bike and will post very soon. Next post, for sure. Now let me share this pie.




Ingredients and easy instructions

3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and thinly chunked or sliced
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons flour
Juice of half a lemon
Pinch of salt
1 Recipe Perfect Pie Crust found HERE



Now, I was feeling exceptionally lazy and took the easy way by buying a Pillsbury premade pie crust.

Roll out the crust on a baking sheet after it’s been out at room temperature long enough to roll out without tearing.

In a large bowl combine all the other ingredients and mix well. I like to let it sit a bit so the apple pieces macerate in the juices.

Place the apple mixture in the center of the pie crust and start folding up the leftover dough. The dough should cover about 2 or 3 inches of the apples.

See below...it doesn't cover the entire mess of apples............


Bake at 375 F for 40 minutes. Let it cool a little first or the slices won’t be neat. Plus you’ll burn your mouth. I may have burnt my mouth a little, totally worth it.

This is an easy go-to dessert if you have the apples in the house. Usually I have lots of sugars and a lemon or two hanging about so this was a last minute easy decision. You can make this spur of the moment! Not sure if that's a good thing or not. :-)

Next I will post photos taken from the back of the trike. I'm not always sure how good a shot it is, I just snap and look later. But it's fun.

Hope you are well. And in cool temperatures. That's a current fantasy of mine, cooler temperatures. Please write and tell me what that's like.

I am sharing this with Beth Fish's Weekend Cooking Series.



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