Title: Special Apple Pie
 Categories: Pies, Desserts
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
---------------------------CRUST--------------------------------
  1 3/4 c  All-purpose flour
    1/4 c  Sugar
      1 ts Cinnamon
    1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 c  Butter
      2 tb Butter
    1/4 c  Water or apple cider

--------------------------FILLING-------------------------------
      8    McIntosh apples
           - peeled, cored & sliced
  1 2/3 c  Sour cream
      1 c  Sugar
    1/3 c  All-purpose flour
      1    Egg
      2 ts Vanilla
    1/2 ts Salt

-------------------------TOPPING-------------------------------
      1 c  Chopped walnuts
    1/2 c  All-purpose flour
    1/3 c  Brown sugar, firmly packed
    1/3 c  Granulated sugar
      1 tb Cinnamon
      1 pn Salt
    1/2 c  Butter; room temperature
 
  For Crust: Combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl.
  Cut in butter using pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture
  resembles coarse meal.  Add water and toss mixture gently with fork
  until evenly moistened, Gather gently into ball.  Transfer to lightly
  floured board and roll into circle slightly larger than a deep
  10-inch pie plate. Ease pastry into pan and flute high edge.  Set
  aside.
  
  For filling: Preheat oven to 450 F.  Combine all ingredients in large
  bowl and mix well.  Spoon into crust. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce oven
  temperature to 350 F and continue baking until filling is slightly
  puffed and golden brown, about 40 minutes.  (If edges of crust begin
  to brown too quickly, cover with strips of aluminum foil.)
  
  For topping: Meanwhile, combine walnuts, flour, sugars, cinnamon and
  salt in medium bowl and mix well. Blend in butter until mixture is
  crumbly. Spoon over pie and bake 15 minutes longer.
  
  Source: The Salt Box Restaurant - Ocean City, New Jersey
  :       Favorite Restaurant Recipes - ISBN:0-89535-100-5

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