There is a grave danger in ritual familiarity with holy matters, even if you are not a professional. It is all too easy to go spiritually brain-dead when the prelude begins, to “say” prayers rather than pray them, to use the cadence of a confession as a rhythmic anesthetic, to mindlessly mouth the words of great hymns and gospel songs, to nod off during the sermon, to glibly mouth evangelical creeds – and then imagine that we’re really spiritual.

Kent Hughes

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	All-purpose flour
1	ts	Salt
1		Stick chilled unsalted butter, sliced
1/3	c	Chilled vegetable shortening
1/3	c	Sugar
1	lg	Egg, well beaten
1	ts	Distilled white vinegar
2	tb	Ice water, approximately
2/3	c	Packed dark brown sugar
1/4	c	Fresh lemon juice
1	tb	Vanilla extract
1 1/4	ts	Cinnamon
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2		Stick unsalted butter
4	lb	Tart green apples, cut 1/4", peeled
3/4	c	All-purpose flour
4 1/2	tb	Sugar
2	tb	Unsalted butter
3		Heath (1.4 oz) toffee bars, chopped
1	lg	Egg beaten with:
2	tb	Water (glaze)

INSTRUCTIONS

CRUST
FILLING
STREUSEL
For crust, combine flour and salt in medium bowl. Cut in butter and
shortening with fork till mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in sugar, egg
and vinegar. Mix in just enough ice water, 1 tbsp at a time, to form dough
that holds together. Divide dough in half, flatten each half into disc,
wrap each in plastic and chill 4 hours. For filling, combine ingredients
(except apples and butter), add apples and toss to coat. Melt butter in
large skillet over medium high heat. Add apple mixture and cook till apples
are slightly softened, about 10 minutes. Cover and chill. Preheat oven to
350. On a floured surface, roll out 1 dough piece to 14. diameter. Transfer
to a 9. deep dish glass pie dish. Trim edges leaving 1/2. overhang. Fold
overhang under and let rest on rim of dish. Line crust with foil. Fill with
dried beans and bake 10 minutes. Remove beans and foil. Bake crust till
crust has set but has no color, about 5 minutes. Remove and cool, leave
oven on. For streusel, combine flour and sugar in bowl. Using fork mix in
butter till coarse meal forms. Stir in toffee. On lightly floured surface,
roll out 2nd dough disc to 14. diameter. Mound apple filling in prebaked
pie crust. Sprinkle streusel over filling. Top with dough round. Trim dough
leaving 1/2. overhang. Gently pinch crust edges together to seal. Brush pie
with glaze. Cut 5 slits in pie top to allow steam to escape. Bake until
crust is golden and apples are tender, about 55 minutes. Cool pie 1 hour.
Serve with good quality vanilla ice cream. Posted to bbq-digest V5 #358 by
mike moberley <lchimney@oldcolo.com> on Jul 05, 1997

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