Apple-cheese crumble pie

Yield: 8 Servings

Measure Ingredient
½ cup Sugar; (up to 3/4)
½ cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
\N \N Pie crust mix for a 2-crust pie
3 tablespoons Butter or margarine
8 ounces Sharp Cheddar cheese; shredded
3 tablespoons Cold water
6 cups Tart apples; pared/sliced
1 tablespoon Flour
½ teaspoon Ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon Ground mace
½ cup Coarsely chopped pecans

Blend the sugars and cinnamon in abowl with 1 cup of the pie crust mix. Cut in the butter or margarine with a pastry blender and set aside for topping the pie. Mix one half of the shredded cheese into remaining pie crust mix.

Add water gradually and mix lightly wit ha fork. On a lightly floured pastry canvas, roll out dough about 1 inch larger than over-all size of a 9 inch pie plate. Fit pastry loosely into the pie plate. Turn under the pastry overhang; flute. Spoon the apples into pastry shell, sprinkle with a blend of flour, nutmeg and mace; then the nuts. Cover with one-half the topping mixture that was set aside (above). and the remaining cheese.

Complete with remaining topping mixture. Bake at 375 F. about 40 minutes.

Remove to a wire rack to cool. Makes one 9 inch pie. MC formatting by bobbi744@...

Recipe by: Family Weekly, January 3, '71 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by Roberta Banghart <bobbi744@...> on Mar 25, 1998

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