Cream and Crumb Schnitz Pie

This is a most lucious and delicious pie. A mennonite recipe that I got from the book "Food that Really Schmecks" I have been making this pie for years and I have to tell you, I have gotten up more than once in the middle of the night to eat that last piece before anyone else can get it! Show more

Ready In: 1 hr

Yields: 1 9inch pie

Ingredients

  • 1  pastry for single-crust pie, 9 inch pie
  • 5 -6  apples, peeled,cored and cut into wedges
  • 1  cup brown sugar
  • 3  tablespoons butter
  • 13 cup flour
  • 23 cup  cream (sweet, sour, or turning)
  • 34 teaspoon cinnamon
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Directions

  1. Mix together sugar, flour and butter until crumbs.
  2. Sprinkle half in the bottom of the shell.
  3. Arrange the apple slices on top of the crumbs.
  4. Mix half of the remaining crumbs with the cream and pour over the apple slices.
  5. Finally, mix the cinnamon with the rest of the crumbs and sprinkle these over the top.
  6. Bake at 425*F for 10 minutes.
  7. Reduce temperature to 350*F and bake about half an hour longer.
  8. WOW!
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