"Just like Grandma's" Dutch Apple Pie from our Bakery
It is a Dutch Apple Pie Recipe that embodies the way the older generations were known for baking; full of warmth, love and plenty of butter:)
Ingredients
Streusel Topping
- 1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (100 grams) brown sugar
- 1 stick (113 grams) butter
- 1/4 tsp salt
- cinnamon to taste
Apple Pie Filling
- 6 cups Apples 3 varieties preferred
- 1 cup (100 grams) sugar
- 1/3 cup (45 grams) flour
- ¼ tsp salt
Pie Crust
- 2 1/2 cups 363 grams of all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 4 Tablespoons (57 grams) cold butter cut into small cubes
- 12 Tablespoons (169 grams) vegetable shortening
- 8 to 10 Tablespoons chilled water
Instructions
Streusel Topping
- In large bowl, mix your flour, sugar and salt together.
- Cut in cold butter in cubes.
- Use pastry cutter to cut butter into the other ingredients until you have a mix of pea sized or smaller pieces of butter.
Apple Pie Filling
- Peel, core, and slice apples, until you have six cups of prepared apples.
- To your apples, add flour, brown sugar, and salt. Stir until apples are fully covered with sugar mixture.
Pie Crust
- To a large bowl, add flour and salt. Sift together with fork.
- To flour mixture, add shortening and butter. Using fingertips, mash fats into the flour until mixture looks like coarse meal and pieces of fat are the size of peas or slightly larger.
- Drizzle chilled water over mixture one tablespoon at a time, stirring with fork with each addition until dough begins to come together, and very little free flour is visible.
- Dump dough out onto work surface and knead one or two times just to form into ball. Divide in half and form two discs. Wrap each disc in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for 2 hours or up to 3 days.
- When you’re ready to roll it out, take out of refrigerator for about 30 minutes before rolling. Place on well-floured pastry cloth, roll out until dough is approximately 1/8 in thick and approximately 2 inches bigger than pie plate. Transfer to pie plate and you’re ready to go!
Final Assembly and Baking
- Preheat oven to 400 degree F.
- Add pie filling to pie crust and distribute evenly.
- Add crumbly streusel to the top of the pie, covering all of the apple filling.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350 and continue to bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the center of the pie is nice and bubbly.
- Remove from oven and let cool for an hour for best results. Enjoy!