Cookie-sheet Apple Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 unbaked pie pastry (rolled into a 15-inch round circle)
• 5 apples, peeled,cored and thinly sliced
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup dried currant
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• heavy cream or beaten egg, for brushing
• 1 tablespoon cold butter, cut in small bits
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2 on a lightly floured baking sheet, roll out pastry into a 15-inch round circle.
• 3 in a bowl, toss together the apples, 3 tbsp sugar, the currants, 1 tbsp flour, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and the peel.
• 4 pile the mixture in a 9-inch mound, in the middle of the pastry shell.
• 5 fold the edges neatly over filling, (do not fold to the middle, leave space in the center to add more ingredients).
• 6 brush the pastry edges with cream or egg.
• 7 bake on a cookie sheet for 25 minutes.
• 8 meanwhile, in a bowl, mix 2 tbsp each of sugar and flour, the remaining cinnamon with the butter, until crumbly; set aside.
• 9 whisk in the remaining sugar, the sour cream, egg yolks and vanilla.
• 10 remove pie from oven.
• 11 pour the mixture over apples.
• 12 top with reserved cinnamon-sugar mixture.
• 13 reduce oven to 350.
• 14 bake the pie for another 35-40 minutes, or until crust is brown.
• 15 pour over the apples.