Apple Strudel Pie
October 12, 2009
My father loves apple strudel and I really wanted to make it for him. But I believe part of being a good hostess is not taking on too much, so you are not crazy, grumpy woman. With all the cooking I was doing, I could not deal with strudel dough (I would have used filo but still more then I wanted to deal with) on top of everything else. So I was brainstorming how I could make something that had all the element of an apple strudel but user friendly. I decided a pie because I could do the crust a week early and put it in the freezer. I also did the topping in the morning. So all I had to do is make the filling add the topping and bake it off with a frozen crust.
Strudel usually has an apple filling with current soaked in rum and lemon peel, as apposed to a cinnamon/brown sugar filling of a traditional apple pie. Also between the dough layers they sprinkle buttered bread crumbs. So I just made a bread crumb topping and filling like you would find in strudel. I have to say it was very good and my father was in heaven. I hope you like it. I would love feedback (good and bad).
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Apple Strudel Pie
1 uncooked pie crust, cold or frozen
Filling:
1/4 cup dried currants (or golden raisins) soaked for 1/2 hour in 1/4 cup of heated rum
6 apples, cored and sliced
3 TBL melted butter
3 TBL flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
rum form the currants
grated lemon peel from one lemon
Topping:
1 1/2 cup bread crumbs, I use panko
1/2 cup melted butter
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup toasted walnuts, chopped *
Heat up rum in sauce pan, do not boil. Pour over currants in a bowl and cover with a plate. Toast walnuts if you have not.
Pre-heat oven 350
For filling toss all ingredients together and fill pie crust. For topping melt butter and mix with the rest of ingredients. Sprinkle over the top of pie. Bake 40-50 minutes, till crust is golden brown.
*Toasting walnuts, set walnuts in a baking dish. Put into a re-heated 350 oven. Bake 4-6 minutes, till golden brown. Watch them, they can go from untoasted to burnt really quick. I can tell they are ready because I can smell they are getting that nice toasty smell.