Cookbook Author and Cooking Instructor
Potomac, Maryland
Sheilah Kaufman
Crazy
Crust Apple or Peach Pie
(serves 6 to 8)
Ingredients:
1) 5
or 6 large apples, peeled, cored, and sliced or...
2) 7 or 8 peaches,
sliced
3) 3 1/2 tbs. sugar
4) 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
5) 4 tbs. butter
or margarine
6) 1 cup sugar
7) 2 eggs
8) 1 cup flour
9) 1 tsp. grated
lemon peel (optional)
Preparation:
1) Preheat
oven to 350 deg f.
2) Place the apple
or peach slices in a 9" by 10" pie pan.
3) Mix together
the sugar and the cinnamon
4)
Sprinkle half of the cinnamon/sugar mixture over the fruit.
5)
In a mixer, cream the butter, and slowly add the sugar
beating well.
6) Add the eggs,
one at a time, beating well after each
addition.
7) Add
the lemon peel and the flour, mixing on the lowest
speed and mixing only until ingredients are blended. Do
not overbeat.
8) Spread
the batter over the fruit, being careful to leave a
1" rim of fruit showing around the edge.
9) Sprinkle the
remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture over the
batter.
10)Bake
at 350 deg f. for one hour. Cool on a wire rack for
an hour.
11)Serve
at room temperature or chilled. Pie can be frozen.
Hint:
When grating the peel of any citrus fruit, try not
to use the
inner white rind because it has a bitter taste.
The peel of
these fruits is sometimes called the "zest".
This is what
imparts the citrus flavor to recipes.
Best
And Most Unusual
Lemon
Pie Ever
(serves 6 to 8)
Ingredients:
1) 2 lemons, very thinly
sliced...with the peel on.
2) 2 cups sugar
3) 4 eggs
4) 1 box pie crusts with
2 crusts
Procedure:
1) Preheat oven to 425
deg. f.
2) Slice the lemons in
half (so they look like half circles).
3) Place the lemons in
a large bowl and cover with the sugar.
4) Let this mixture sit
for two hours at room temperature.
5) Press on crust into
the bottom of a 9" pie pan.
6) Beat the eggs well
and mix with the lemon sugar mixture.
Mix well.
7) Pour into the bottom
crust and cover with the remaining
crust.
8) With a sharp knife,
make several slits in the top crust to
allow steam to escape baking.
9) Bake the pie at 425
deg f. for 15 minutes. Lower the oven
temperature to 350 deg f.
and bake another 35 to 40
minutes, or until the crust
is golden brown.
10)Cool the pie on a
wire rack for 30 minutes. Chill
thoroughly before serving.
11)Freezes beautifully.