Recipe - Tarte Alsacienne

CREAM CHEESE PIE DOUGH
One half pound Butter
One half pound Cream cheese
2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cup Flour

FILLING
1 One half cup Half and half
2 Eggs
3 cup Thinly cut or sliced up , green apples
(peeled)
One half cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
One fourth teaspoon Mace

CREAM BUTTER, CREAM CHEESE and vanilla together in a mixer or processor.
Reduce speed to low and add the flour. Mix until incorporated. Remove the
dough from the mixer, form into 3 balls and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill for
1 hour before using. Uncooked dough can be frozen for up to 2 months.
Freeze uncooked balls of dough or freeze dough in pie tins. FILLING: Place
a ball of chilled dough on a piece of lightly floured wax paper and pound
with a rolling pin to flatten and soften. Roll the dough into an 11inch
circle, lift it with the wax paper and invert onto a 9inch glass pie dish.
Press firmly into the dish and gently remove and discard wax paper. Place
in refrigerator to chill. Preheat oven to 400F. Arrange apples in the pie
crust. In a bowl, beat together eggs, halfandhalf, sugar, vanilla and
mace. Pour the mixture over the apples. Place the pie in the oven and bake
until the mixture is set, about 30 minutes. The dough recipe makes about 3
10inch pies.

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