French Apple Pie
"This is a great recipe given to me by my Mother in law. This is my husband's favorite pie and I love making it for him. Even if you don't like raisins too much, they are not overwhelming."
photo by setzelina
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 2 9 inch pie crusts, unbaked
- 6 granny smith apples, peeled,cored and sliced into 1/8 inch thin (or any tart apples)
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3⁄4 - 1 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons flour or 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon rind
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Icing
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 -2 tablespoon milk
directions
- 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.
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Reviews
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Second time I used this recipe. Yummy.
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made this several times, everyone loves it. Making it for the holidays everyone wants one -
Wonderful recipe! This cooked up really nice. Thank you!!! -
This was an easy recipe to do. It has been years since I have baked so needed the recipe to refresh my mind. I did change up a few things. I mixed all the dry ingredients together and then mixed them into the apples. And I doubled the glaze. -
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I followed the recipe to the letter but in the future may do 3/4 cup raisins instead of one cup and make the icing thicker. It was so delicious! -
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Tweaks
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I made this pie with Pillsbury premade crusts and it turned out really well. I used cranberries instead of raisins, but it was pretty tart, so next time I'm going to make it with raisins. I thought it was a little too sweet with the cup of sugar so I recommend using only 3/4 cup.
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