Dutch Apple Pie
- 1 of your favorite homemade pie crusts or 1 ready-made pie crust
- 5 1⁄2 cups peeled cored sliced cooking apples
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1⁄ 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- the topping:
- 3⁄4 cup flour
- 1⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1⁄3 cup butter or 1/3 cup margarine, room temperature
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Fit pie crust into pie plate.
- In a large bowl, mix sliced apples, lemon juice, both sugars, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Pile into crust.
to prepare the topping:
- In a medium bowl, with a pastry blender or a fork, mix flour, both sugars, and butter until coarsely crumbled.
- Sprinkle evenly over apples.
- Bake at 375°F for 50 minutes.