Ingredients
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3 all-purpose apples, peeled and thinly sliced
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2 tablespoons margarine or 2 tablespoons butter, melted
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1 (32 ounce) jar ready to use mincemeat (Regular or Brandy & Rum)
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1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
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1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1/3 cup cold butter or 1/3 cup margarine
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1/4 cup chopped nuts (I use walnuts)
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1/2 cup unsifted flour, plus
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3 tablespoons unsifted flour
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1 9 in. unbaked pastry shell
Instructions
- In a large bowl, toss apples with 3 Tablespoons flour and the melted margarine; arrange in a pastry shell.
- (To save time, you can use a frozen pastry shell, thawed).
- Top apples with mincemeat.
- In medium bowl, combine remaining 1/2 cup flour, sugar and cinnamon; cut in cold margarine until crumbly.
- Add nuts; sprinkle over mincemeat.
- Bake in lower half of 425* degree oven 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375*; bake 25 minutes longer or until golden brown.
- Cool.
- Serve with whipping cream.
- (Prior to removing your pie from the oven, insert a knife or fork to test the doneness of the apples- I made this pie for Thanksgiving and used 3 different apples, one of them did not cook up as fast as the other two and I had some"crunchy" bites- it was s).