Apple Pie in a Brown Paper Bag

Name: Apple Pie in a Brown Paper Bag
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 118 milliliters brown sugar; 118 milliliters softened butter; 118 milliliters all-purpose flour; 2 Tbsps graham cracker crumbs; 2 kilograms Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 pinch ground ginger; 1 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 2 Tbsps lemon juice; 60 inches 12x of parchment paper; 118 milliliters superfine sugar; 3 Tbsps cold water, or more as needed; 2 teaspoons white sugar

You can never have too many American recipes, so give Apple Pie in a Brown Paper Bag a try. This dessert has 606 calories, 5g of protein, and 17g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes. If you have granny smith apples, lemon juice, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Brown Butter Cardamom Spiced Sugar Paper, Paper Bag Apple Pie, and Apple Pie Baked Doughnuts.

Instructions

To make the bottom crust, stir the flour and white sugar together in a bowl until well-combined. Rub the unsalted butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs; sprinkle with cold water, a couple of tablespoons at a time, mixing the dough together lightly with a fork until it barely holds together.

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Unsalted Butter

Granulated Sugar

Crust

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Bowl

Form the dough into a ball and roll it out to a circle about 1/8-inch thick. Gently ease the dough into an 8-inch pie dish.

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Dough

Roll

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Pie Form

Cut off any excess pastry with a knife. Finish the edge of the crust by gently pressing the tines of a fork into the dough all the way around the edge of the pie dish. Set the crust aside.

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Crust

Dough

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Pie Form

Knife

To make the pie filling, stir the apples, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour, the cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and lemon juice together in a large bowl; set aside.

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Brown Sugar

Lemon Juice

Pie Filling

Cinnamon

Apple

Ginger

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

To make the topping, mix 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of softened butter, and the superfine sugar together in a bowl until you have a sticky, moist dough.

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Superfine Sugar

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

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Bowl

To assemble the pie, cover the bottom of the pie crust with a light, even layer of graham cracker crumbs. Fill the pie with the apple mixture, piling it up in a mound shape. Pinch off pieces of the topping mixture, flatten them a little with your fingers, and dot them at random all over the top of the filling, covering as much of the filling as possible.

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Graham Cracker Crumbs

Pie Crust

Apple

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

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Oven

Tear off 2 30-inch-long pieces of parchment paper and place them in a cross shape on a work surface.

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Baking Paper

Place the filled pie in the center of the two pieces of parchment, bring the paper ends up over the pie and fold and staple the parchment paper over the pie to completely enclose and seal in the pie. The paper should not touch the top or sides of the pie.

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Baking Paper

Place the parchment-wrapped pie on a baking sheet to catch any drips.

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Baking Sheet