Apple Pie in a Bag

Description

Contributed by Delma at Catsrecipes Y-Group

Ingredients

• 8 cups Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 1 tablespoon orange juice
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ⅔ cup all-purpose flour
• ⅓ cup sugar
• 1 x 9-inch pie shell
• 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) butter or margarine
• 1 teaspoon grated orange zest

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400 °F.
2. Toss apples with orange juice, cinnamon, and 2 tablespoons each flour and sugar.
3. Fill pastry shell with apple mixture, mounding in the center.
4. In small bowl, combine remaining flour and sugar; with pastry blender or fork, cut in butter until crumbly.
5. Stir in orange zest.
6. Gather mixture together to make form a soft dough.
7. Flatten small pieces of dough between fingers arrange on top of apple filling. (Dough will not completely cover filling)
8. Wrap pie in a 30- by 15-inch piece of parchment paper, folding parchment over top of pie making sure it does not touch pie; staple ends of parchment to seal.
9. Set on rack in center of oven bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes.
10. Carefully open parchment and allow steam to escape.
11. Remove pie from parchment cool on wire rack.