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 Dutch Oven Yankee Apple Pie
(contributed by Rob Faris)

Ingredients:

  • Scotch Shortbread Crust:
  • 1 pound of flour (about 3-4 cups)
  • 1 or 1 1/2 sticks of cold butter or margarine
  • 1/4 pound (maybe 1/3 cup) sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • glass of ice or spring water

Filling:

  • Tart apples (Granny Smith, Mitsu, Greening, etc.), peeled, cored and cut into small sections
  • 1/2 to 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup flour (can also use corn starch or tapioca)
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • pinch freshly ground nutmeg (optional)
  • pinch salt
  • margarine or butter

Crust:

  1. In a deep trail chef pot, mix together by hand the flour, sugar, salt and sugar. Preferably with a pastry cutter (but a butter knife will also do), thoroughly cut the butter or margarine into the flour mixture (flour mixture will turn slightly yellow overall). Add ice or cold spring water, a sprinkle at a time, and mix with your hands into the flour mixture until the mixture holds together and forms a dough.
  2. Gulp down some of the water, cross yourself, then turn slightly more than half of the dough onto a floured flat surface (for example, floured wax paper or aluminum foil) and roll out with a bottle or can). Position bottom crust into a pie pan bent to fit into the Dutch oven.
  3. Filling: Take the rest of the dough out of the trail chef pot and use it to mix the filling. Mix the apple sections, sugar, salt, flour and cinnamon and use to fill bottom pie crust. Dot with butter (if you dare). Roll out remaining dough into top crust and place onto top of pie. Crimp edges by hand. Prick top crust with a fork (Grandma J. would always make three "V" shaped fork-tine triads on the top of the pie).
  4. Cover Dutch oven, and put sufficient coals on top and beneath to provide temperature of about 375 to 400 degrees. Bake for about an hour. Yankees eat this pie with a good aged cheddar cheese.
  5. This same crust is excellent with any fruit filling. Try red tart pitted cherries, sugar and tapioca or flour; or freshly picked raspberries or blueberries, sugar, lemon juice and lots of tapioca or corn starch.