Scarlett WApple Pie with An Oatmeal Cookie Crust
November 13th 2006 13:34
Apple Pie with An Oatmeal Cookie Crust
About Oatmeal
Oatmeal is a product made by processing oats. In North America, oatmeal means any crushed oats, rolled oats, or cut oats used in recipes such as oatmeal cookies. The porridge made from this is also called oatmeal or oatmeal cereal. However in other parts of the English-speaking world, oatmeal means coarsely ground oats.
About Applesauce
Applesauce is a sauce that is made from stewed and mashed apples. Sometimes, apple sauce is sweetened with sugar or high fructose corn syrup; sometimes it is pure. It can used peeled or unpeeled apples and a variety of spices or additives like cinnamon. Applesauce can be fine or coarse textured, even to including large chunks of apple. It is easily produced at home, and commercial versions are readily available in the supermarket as a common food or as a snack for children and seniors with dentures.
In UK, apple sauce is not usually served as a dish on its own, but, as the name variant suggests, as a sauce. This usually accompanies a main course meat, and is most often paired with harm, pork, or gammon.
Applesauce is often used as food for babies, since it does not require the use of teeth. It is sometimes recommended to combat diarrhea, since it is high in dietary fiber.
INGREDIENTS
Makes 9-inch pie, serves 10
For the oatmeal cookie crust and top crust
2 and two-thirds cups white or oat flour
1 cup maple or natural cane sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
¾ - 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 egg white
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
canola oil cooking spray
For the apple filling
6 – 8 large, tart apples, makes about 11 cups sliced
¾ cup maple or natural cane sugar
¾ cup apple juice, divided
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Celsius.
2. For the oatmeal cookie crust, in a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, oats, cinnamon and baking soda.
3. In another bowl, combine apple sauce, egg white and vanilla. Stir to mix.
4. Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients and stir until well blended. If mixture seems too dry to roll out, add up to ¼ cup more apple sauce.
5. Spray a 9-inch pie pan with cooking spray.
6. Roll out half the oat mixture on a lightly floured surface to make a 12-inch circle. If necessary, press the dough into the pan with your fingers to get it into position. Reserve the remaining mixture for the top of the pie.
7. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and fill.
8. To make the filling, peel and core apples and cut into one-eighth-inch slices.
9. Place apples, sugar, ½ cup apple juice, cinnamon and vanilla in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until apples are tender, about 5 - 10 minutes.
10. Dissolve cornstarch in remaining apple juice. Add to hot apple mixture, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
11. Place apple mixture in baked crust.
12. To make the top crust, turn out the remaining crust dough onto lightly floured surface. Roll into an 11-inch circle. Pierce with a fork.
13. Covering filling with top crust. Fold top edge under and crimp. Set pie pan on a larger pan to catch drips.
14. Bake until top crust is firm, about 15 – 20 minutes.
15. Serve warm or chilled.
Tips:
1. You can make oatmeal cookies with this recipe, spray a baking sheet and drop tablespoon-size mounds of batter of batter about 1-inch apart onto the sheet. Bake cookies at 350 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
2. You also can vary the pie, substitute pears for apples and add a touch of nutmeg.
**From “The Taste for Living Cookbook” and “Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”**
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