Apple Cranberry Currant Pie W Lemon Nutmeg Crust Recipes

MOM'S CRANBERRY APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Fit a pie crust into a 9-inch pie dish and arrange sliced apples into crust. Spread cranberries over apples. Whisk sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon in a small bowl and sprinkle mixture over cranberries. Distribute butter pieces over pie filling. Place remaining crust over filling, crimp both crusts together, and cut several slits into top crust to vent steam.
• Bake until pie is browned and fruit filling is bubbling, 45 minutes to 1 hour.

APPLE CRANBERRY CUTOUT PIE

Steps:

• Divide pastry dough into two portions so that one is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 hour or overnight., In a Dutch oven, mix sugar and flour; stir in fruit, orange zest, orange juice and spices. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 10-12 minutes or until apples are tender and juices are thickened, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and cool, stirring occasionally., Preheat oven to 375°. Roll larger portion of pastry dough between two pieces of waxed paper into a 16x12-in. rectangle. Remove top piece of waxed paper; place a 13x9-in. baking pan upside down over pastry. Lifting with waxed paper, carefully invert pastry into pan. Remove waxed paper; press pastry onto bottom and up sides of pan. Refrigerate., On a well-floured surface, roll remaining dough into a 14x10-in. rectangle. Cut out 2-3 trees using a tree-shaped cookie cutter. Place dough on baking sheet and refrigerate 15 minutes until firm., Remove and reserve tree cutouts. Add filling to prepared pan. Place pastry over filling. Seal edges to bottom pastry by crimping with a fork. If desired, brush pastry with additional orange juice. Decorate top with cutouts. Sprinkle with additional sugar., Bake 40-50 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack.,

CRANBERRY APPLE-NUT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. Combine cranberries, apples, almonds and orange zest. In another bowl, mix sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; add to fruit mixture and toss gently., On a lightly floured surface, roll one half of dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust even with rim. Add filling. Drizzle with butter. Roll remaining dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle. Place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edge. Cut slits in top., Bake until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, 45-50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

COLONIAL TIMES APPLE-CRANBERRY PIE WITH CORNMEAL CRUST

Steps:

• For Crust:.
• Mix first 5 ingredients in a food processor.
• Add shortening and cut in until mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Blend in enough buttermilk by tablespoons to form dough that clumps together.
• Gather dough into a ball;divide in half.
• Flatten each half into a disk and wrap separately in plastic wrap; chill 45 minutes.
• (Can make 1 day ahead).
• For filling:.
• Position rack in lowest third of oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
• Coarsely chop cranberries with sugar and pumpkin pie spice in food processor;transfer mixture to a large bowl.
• Add apples.currants, and flour and toss well.
• Roll out 1 dough disk between sheets of waxed paper to a 13 inch round, peel off top sheet of paper and invert dough into a 9 1/2 inch diameter deep-dish glass pie dish;peel off paper.
• Fold under overhanging dough to form a double-thick edge;crimp edges.
• Using acorn, leaf or shape of your choice cookie cutters, cut out shapes.
• Using a knife, mark veins in leaves or add other decorative touches.
• Slightly mound filling in pie dish.
• Arrange dough shapes around edges of pie and all over top, overlapping decoratively.
• Brush pastry all over with buttermilk.
• Place pie on baking sheet (I line it with heavy-duty foil for ease in clean up).
• Bake for 45 minutes.
• Cover pie with foil and continue baking until juices bubble thickly and crust browns, about 35 minutes more.
• Transfer pie to rack and cool 1 hour.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.

JEN'S CRANBERRY APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Combine pink apples, Granny Smith apples, cranberries, brown sugar, flour, lemon zest, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla together in a bowl and stir until apples are completely coated.
• Roll out and line a pie dish with 1/2 the dough. Pour apple mixture into pie dish. Dot apple mixture with butter pieces. Roll out remaining 1/2 the dough and top apple mixture with dough. Pinch edges of bottom and top crusts together. Tuck in dough and crimp to form a border. Cut vents in the top of the dough and place pie on a baking sheet.
• Bake pie in the preheated oven until apples are tender, filling is bubbling, and crust is golden brown, about 50 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.