After reading close to 600 pages of stuff about libraries in the past three weeks, I’ve gotten a little tired of spending my every waking moment thinking about literacy, archives, and the information society. Fortunately, my future in laws brought us approximately 10 lbs of apples the other day (my fiance B. has given away at least 30 apples and not made a dent in them), so to help clear us of this mess I made a pie.
This recipe was made partially out of this one from my brother and his fiancee’s blog, and partly out of this one from All Recipes.com. Because there is a limit to how much time I have to spend on this, I used a pre-made pie crust. It came in a box at the grocery store and made this basically the easiest thing ever.
Ingredients
- 5 apples (peeled and sliced)
- 1 nectarine (peeled and sliced)
- the juice of 1/2 orange
- cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, and salt
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1/4 c. water
- 1/2 c. brown sugar
- 3 T. flour
Methodology
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Futz with the pie crust. Don’t pre-bake – you’ll want a bottom crust with enough dough left over to do a lattice on top.
- Peel, core, and slice the apples and nectarine. Mix in a bowl and squeeze orange juice over them. Heap in the bottom of the pie crust and put the lattice over it.
- Melt the butter in the pan. Add the brown sugar, water, and flour. Add the spices (in an amount which might be described as “some”, probably about 1 tsp of each, but I wasn’t really measuring.
- Pour the sugar mixture over the pie.
- Bake for 15 minutes. Turn oven down to 350 and bake for another 30 minutes.
Q: How was it?
A: Delicious. It looked a little soupy, and I think I would cut the amount of liquid (butter+water) and maybe even add some corn starch, but it tasted phenominal. B agreed.
Edited to add: it wasn’t soupy at all the next day.
