Recipe - Streusel Apple Pie

1 Piece vanilla bean, (4inch)
split lengthwise
One fourth cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1 One half tablespoon Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Ground cinnamon
2 One half pound Rome or other cooking
apples, peeled, cored and
thinly cut or sliced up
1 cup Allpurpose flour, divided
3 tablespoon Ice water
1 teaspoon Sugar
One fourth teaspoon Salt
3 tablespoon Vegetable shortening
Vegetable cooking spray
One half cup Firmly packed brown sugar
One fourth cup Allpurpose flour
One fourth cup Regular oats
One fourth teaspoon Cinnamon
3 tablespoon Chilled stick margarine

Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into a large bowl; discard bean. Add One fourth cup
brown sugar and next 2 ingredients to bowl; stir well. Add apple slices;
toss well to coat. Set aside.

Combine One fourth cup flour and ice water, stirring with a wire whisk until well
blended; set aside. Combine remaining Three fourths cup flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, and
salt in a bowl; cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture
resembles coarse meal. Add ice water mixture; toss with a fork until dry
ingredients are mositened. Gently press into a 4inch circle on heavyduty
plastic wrap; cover with additional plastic wrap.

Roll pastry, still covered, into an 11inch circle. Freeze for at least 10
minutes. Remove bottom sheet of plastic wrap from pastry; fit pastry into a
9inch pieplate coated with cooking spray, and remove top sheet of plastic
\wrap. Flute edges decoratively. Spoon apple mixture into pastry shell.
Cover with aluminum foil, and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until
apple mixture is crisptender.

Combine One half cup brown sugar and next 3 ingredients; cut in margarine until
mixture is crumbly. Uncover pie, and sprinkle streusel over apple mixture.
Bake, uncovered, an additional 25 minutes. Yield: 8 servings (serving size:
1 wedge).

Per serving: 336 Calories; 10g Fat (27% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 60g
Carbohydrate; 3mg Cholesterol; 128mg Sodium

Recipe by: Cooking Light, October 1994, page 66

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #415 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.