Name: Streusel Apple Pie
Ingredients: 1 Piece vanilla bean, (4-inch) split lengthwise; 1/4 c Firmly packed brown sugar; 1 1/2 tb All-purpose flour; 1/2 ts Ground cinnamon; 2 1/2 lb Rome or other cooking apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced; 1 c All-purpose flour, divided; 3 tb Ice water; 1 ts Sugar; 1/4 ts Salt; 3 tb Vegetable shortening; Vegetable cooking spray; 1/2 c Firmly packed brown sugar; 1/4 c All-purpose flour; 1/4 c Regular oats; 1/4 ts Cinnamon; 3 tb Chilled stick margarine; 1 wedge).

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains, Vegetables		Desserts	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Piece vanilla bean, (4-inch) split lengthwise
1/4	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
1 1/2	tb	All-purpose flour
1/2	ts	Ground cinnamon
2 1/2	lb	Rome or other cooking apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1	c	All-purpose flour, divided
3	tb	Ice water
1	ts	Sugar
1/4	ts	Salt
3	tb	Vegetable shortening
		Vegetable cooking spray
1/2	c	Firmly packed brown sugar
1/4	c	All-purpose flour
1/4	c	Regular oats
1/4	ts	Cinnamon
3	tb	Chilled stick margarine
	1	wedge).

INSTRUCTIONS

Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into a large bowl; discard bean. Add 1/4 cup
brown sugar and next 2 ingredients to bowl; stir well. Add apple slices;
toss well to coat. Set aside.
Combine 1/4 cup flour and ice water, stirring with a wire whisk until well
blended; set aside. Combine remaining 3/4 cup flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, and
salt in a bowl; cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture
resembles coarse meal. Add ice water mixture; toss with a fork until dry
ingredients are mositened. Gently press into a 4-inch circle on heavy-duty
plastic wrap; cover with additional plastic wrap.
Roll pastry, still covered, into an 11-inch circle. Freeze for at least 10
minutes. Remove bottom sheet of plastic wrap from pastry; fit pastry into a
9-inch pieplate coated with cooking spray, and remove top sheet of plastic
&bsol;wrap. Flute edges decoratively. Spoon apple mixture into pastry shell.
Cover with aluminum foil, and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until
apple mixture is crisp-tender.
Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar and next 3 ingredients; cut in margarine until
mixture is crumbly. Uncover pie, and sprinkle streusel over apple mixture.
Bake, uncovered, an additional 25 minutes. Yield: 8 servings (serving size:
Per serving: 336 Calories; 10g Fat (27% calories from fat); 3g Protein; 60g
Carbohydrate; 3mg Cholesterol; 128mg Sodium
Recipe by: Cooking Light, October 1994, page 66
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #415 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.

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