Apple Raisin French Pie Recipe 455

Steps:

• Cut pastry sheet in half. Repackage and refrigerate one half for another use. On a lightly floured surface, roll out remaining half into an 8-in. circle. Transfer to a 7-in. pie plate; flute edges., In a large bowl, combine the apples, 1 tablespoon sugar and cinnamon; place in crust. In a small bowl, combine the flour, walnuts, raisins, butter, egg and remaining sugar; spoon over top. Bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes or until topping is golden brown and fruit is tender, covering edges with foil to prevent overbrowning if necessary. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• Place one crust in a 9 inch pie pan.
• Mix apple slices and raisins and place in pie shell.
• Sprinkle with lemon juice.
• Mix remaining ingredients (not Icing) and sprinkle on top of apples and raisins.
• Dot with butter if desired and place 2nd crust on top.
• Crimp or flute edges as desired.
• Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees and Bake 40 more minutes.
• When pie is cool, mix the icing and drizzle over the crust.

Steps:

• raisin filling. combine raisins, water, and lemon juice in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. bring to boil lower heat cook watch very carefully they will burn cook until raisins are plump from separate bowl corn syrup, flour and sugar mix well then add to raisins continue cooking stirring watch again so they don't burn. until thick syrupy Pre heat oven 400 degrees bake for 1 hour Spread the apple mixture in the curst in an even layer, spread raisin filling evenly over apples. top with crumb topping or plain crust cut vent in center of plain crust

Steps:

• For crust:
• Mix flour, sugar and salt in processor. Add shortening and butter. Using on/off turns, process until mixture resembles coarse meal. Transfer flour mixture to large bowl. Combine 7 tablespoons ice water and 2 1/2 teaspoons vinegar in small bowl; pour over flour mixture. Stir with fork until moist clumps form, adding more water by teaspoonfuls if needed. Gather dough into ball; divide into 2 pieces. Flatten each into disk. Wrap each separately in plastic; chill 20 minutes.
• For filling:
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Mix all ingredients in large bowl; toss. Roll out 1 dough disk on lightly floured surface to 13-inch round. Transfer to 9-inch-diameter deep-dish glass pie dish. Trim overhang to 1 inch. Spoon filling into dough-lined dish. Roll out second dough disk on lightly floured surface to 13-inch round. With star cookie cutter, cut out several stars from center of crust. Fold crust in half and transfer to top of filling. Unfold crust. Press top and bottom crust edges together to seal. Crimp edges decoratively. Place cutout stars around edge of crust.
• Bake pie until apples are tender and juices are bubbling thickly, covering edges with foil if browning too quickly, about 1 hour 45 minutes. Cool on rack 1 hour. (Can be made 8 hours ahead. Let stand on rack.) Serve with ice cream.

Steps:

• Coat a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Arrange 1/2 of the cubed raisin bread in the bottom of the dish. Sprinkle the cream cheese evenly over the bread, and top with the apples. If you like extra raisins, add them now. Top with remaining bread.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs with the cream, butter, and maple syrup. Pour over the bread mixture. Cover with plastic wrap, and press down so that all bread pieces are soaked. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Bake 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

Steps:

• TIP:( Use your favorite baking apples a combination of Granny Smiths (for their tart flavor and crisp texture) and Cortlands (for their sweetness and softer texture) is nice. Northern Spies or Ginger Golds are wonderful, if you can get them. ).
• For the filling*: Bring the apple cider to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat about 20 minutes, until reduced to about 2/3 cup.
• For Crust:.
• Combine the flour, salt and sugar, cinnamon in a food processor. Add the butter and shortening, and pulse until mixture forms coarse crumbs. Add 2 tablespoons of ice water to the flour mixture. With the machine running, add additional water, a tablespoon at a time, until clumps form. Mold the dough into two balls, shape into disks and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out the remaining dough into a 13-inch round. Roll it up on the rolling pin and unroll it on the top of the pie. Trim the edges, leaving a 1-inch rim of dough. Fold that under and crimp the edges with your fingers or a fork. Slit the top crust with a knife a few times to let the steam escape. Or you can use a refigerated pie crust mix from the store.
• This pie crust is a lot easier to roll after it has chilled for two hours. It then absorbs less flour when rolled. The lemon juice will tenderize the gluten while baking--there is no need for any special precaution in rolling. The large circle of dough can be easily manipulated into the pan by first folding it in four, and then unfolding right in the pan, where the pan provides support. Your recipe directs the filling to be cooked and added to the rolled dough without saying anything about any cooling time. Using a hot filling makes the pastry get soggy in the oven.
• For the filling: Ingredients:.
• TIP:( Use your favorite baking apples - a combination of Granny Smiths (for their tart flavor and crisp texture) and Cortlands (for their sweetness and softer texture) is nice. Northern Spies or Ginger Golds are wonderful, if you can get them. ).
• 1 teaspoon baking soda.
• 1 cup all-purpose flour.
• 2 2/3 cups apple cider reduced * see below.
• 1 to 1-1/2 cup golden raisins seedless raisins soak in about 1/3 cup apple cider about 4 hours or overnight mix untill raisins are plunp. or Combine raisins and cider in a small microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH for 1 minute or so until raisins are plump. Set aside.
• *2 2/3 cups apple cider (reduced to about 2/3 cup) For the filling:.
• Bring the apple cider to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat about 20 minutes, until reduced to about 2/3 cup.
• 1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
• 2. Combine 1/4 cup butter, white sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, soda, flour, cider raisins, apples, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and I Add a little lemon juice to enhance their flavor. in the order given. and add the apple cider (reduced to about 2/3 cup) in a bowl mix will, Pour into pie pan.
• 3. The remaining dough, Roll it up on the rolling pin and unroll it on the top of the pie. Trim the edges, Slit the top crust with a knife a few times to let the steam escape.
• Cover the rim of the crust with foil if it darkens too quickly.
• And my only suggestion here, is to put it on a foil-covered baking sheet may bubbled over the side of the pie plate.
• 4. Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees F.
• 5. Cool on a wire rack after cool put it in the refrigerate for about 25-30 minute.
• 6. Ensure the pie is very cool before the glaze is drizzled on. Put it back in the refrigerate so the glaze set up, Now serving time.
• To make frosting Glaze:.
• Vanilla Glaze Yield:1 cup " This is Great on Apple Cookies! as will".
• Ingredients:.
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar.
• 2 1/2 teaspoons milk.
• 1/8 teaspoon salt.
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract.
• 1 teaspoon butter.
• Directions:.
• 1. Melt the butter and add to rest of ingredients. Mix until creamy.
• I found the glaze a too thick- albeit pretty- when I added the minimal amount of milk. After switching it to tablespoons, it turned out a nice glaze consistency. I also added a teaspoon of cinnamon and poured it over pie.
• NOTE: Golden Delicious apples ARE Not related to Red Delicious, they are Best for snacking and in salads. They are poor as a baking apples.

Steps:

• PIE.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Combine all dry ingredients.
• Mix dry ingredients with apples and raisins.
• Pour into bottom crust.
• Sprinkle with orange juice.
• Dot with butter.
• Add top crust.
• Flute edges & cut steam vents.
• Bake about 40 minutes or until crust is browned.
• Cool before frosting.
• FROSTING.
• Mix sugar and butter.
• Add milk a tsp at a time until spreading consistency.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees (bottom rack).
• In a large bowl, combine apples, raisins, sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and cloves.
• Mound mixture in prepared unbaked pastry shell; dot with small pieces of butter.
• Cover the filling with top pie crust; seal, and flute edges.
• Cut several vents/slits in top crust to vent out steam.
• Place on a cookie sheet if desired to prevent spills.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until crust is golden, and apples are tender.
• Cool at least 30 minutes before serving.