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Senator Robert Dole's Apple Pie




Source of Recipe


Internet


Recipe Introduction


This 1988 Ladies Home Journal first prize apple pie winner was from the senator's wife, Elizabeth Dole.




List of Ingredients




Filling
6 tart apples (Granny Smith, Jonathan
or Pippin), peeled, cored, sliced
2/3 C. granulated sugar
Water
2 T. cornstarch
1 T. butter
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Pinch of nutmeg



Recipe



Filling
6 tart apples (Granny Smith, Jonathan
or Pippin), peeled, cored, sliced
2/3 C. granulated sugar
Water
2 T. cornstarch
1 T. butter
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Pinch of nutmeg

Combine apples, sugar and 1/2 cup water in a large skillet. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then cover and cook 5 minutes. Dissolve cornstarch in 1/4 cup water in a small bowl; stir into apple mixture. Bring to a boil, then cook, stirring occasionally, for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in the butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. Cool.

Pastry
1/2 C. butter, softened
1/3 C. firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/4 C. all-purpose flour
1/2 C. chopped pecans

Beat the butter and brown sugar in mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. With mixer at low speed, beat in the flour and pecans. Press dough into a 10-inch pie plate and refrigerate 10 minutes.

Topping
1/2 C. all-purpose flour
1/2 C. chopped pecans
1/4 C. firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/8 tsp. mace
1/4 C. cold butter, cut up

Combine flour, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and mace in a medium bowl. With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 400ºF. Spoon filling into the pastry shell. Sprinkle topping evenly over apples. Bake for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375ºF. Bake for 30 minutes more or until apples are tender. If topping browns too quickly, cover loosely with foil. Cool on a wire rack.