Yummy

Apple Crisp Pie

Ingredients:

Pastry:
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 Tbs. sugar
* 1/4 tsp. salt
* 6 Tbs. unsalted butter
* 2 Tbs. ice water

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Filling:
* 4 Granny Smith apples
* 2 Tbs. sugar

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Topping:
* 3/4 cup sugar
* 3/4 cup flour
* 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
* 1/4 tsp. salt
* 8 Tbs. unsalted butter, chilled

Directions:

Pastry:
In a bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt. Cut butter into small cubes and with a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut butter into flour until pea sized granules form. Add ice water and mix lightly until dough forms a ball. Wrap plastic and refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Roll out pastry and fit into 9" pie plate.

Filling:
peel, core and thinly slice apples; spread slices on paper towels and pat dry. Place in a bowl and toss with sugar. Fill pastry shell with apples, rounding up in center.

Topping:
Combing dry ingredients in a bowl. Cut butter into small cubes, add to dry ingredients and mix with finger tips until granular and crumbly. Sprinkle evenly over apples. Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated 425 oven, reduce heat to 350 and bake another 25 to 30 minutes until top is golden brown and apples are cooked and bubbly. Cover pastry around rim with aluminum foil, if it is browning too fast. Serve warm with whipped cream.

Serves 8.(but not at my place!)