Southern Fried Apple Pies

If you take a drive along our beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway

and start getting a craving for something yummy it won't take you

long to find yourself a

Fried Apple Pie.

The best things in life are simple and so is this little treat. 

You will get a good taste of southern home cookin' with a Fried Apple Pie. 

Let's make ourselves some Fried Pies.

To get started you will want to make a batch of pie crust.

Flaky Pie Crust

Set your crust aside and will fry up our apples.

Now we need to fry up some apples.

When I fry apples:

1. I  peel & slice my apples into thin discs.

2.  I prefer a iron skillet when frying apples. I just cover the bottom of my skillet with water place my apples in skillet, add a sprinkle of salt, dob butter or margarine all a top my apples, 

cover with brown sugar and cinnamon. I really don't measure; I just eyeball it. 

3. Cook apples medium-high heat. Stirring often until apples are cooked down.

By that I mean cooked down tender and syrupy but not turned to 

applesauce or mush.

It's time to put this together and fry 'em up.

1. Roll out you pie crust. I'm going to use a large biscuit cutter

 but you can cut out you discs with a large cup or saucer

2. Heat 1/2 inch to 1 inch of oil in a pan on medium-high heat.

3. Take one pie crust, roll a little thinner, add about 2 heaping spoons of apples.

Fold over and mash ends together. 

If your crust is a little dry wet it with your finger.

You can also use a fork to really close it good.

4. Place in hot oil.

Turn in about 1-2 minutes. Cook another minute or two.

Remove and repeat until you're out of apples and crust.

YeeHaw! 

That's all she wrote.

Grandma Dorothy's Sliced Apple Pie

My Grandma Dorothy loved what she called a sliced apple pie. This is the first pie I learned to make and I believe it is the perfect pie for young child or a beginning cook to start with. 

It is almost to simple to call a recipe.

I've got all these leftover apples I purchased for our apple bobbing so I''m going to start with washing and peeling my apples. 

If your apples are small, you may need about 10 apple; if they are large 6-8 apples.

I'm baking my pie in a 9 inch pie pan. You will want enough apple so that they are quite heaped up before you put you pie in the oven because your apples will bake down a lot.

Preheat oven 400 degrees

Ingredients:

8-12 apples 

1 pie shell uncooked

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter or margarine

Cinnamon

All-spice

Directions:

1. I start by putting a bit(1/4 cup) of brown sugar and a dash of cinnamon in the bottom of my pie shell.

Grandma Dorothy would put cinnamon sugar instead of regular cinnamon and all-spice. You can really use whatever you like.

2. Slice apples directly into pie shell. Thin discs is what you really want.

3. Drop dollops of butter all along with you sliced apples.

4. Sprinkle cinnamon and all-spice across top of apples.
5. Cover with brown sugar and dollops of butter.

6. Place in preheated oven for about 45 minutes. You'll know when it's right when your crust is golden and your pie is browned.

The pie looks a little dry on top but should be moist throughout. 

Best topped with vanilla ice cream.