Brown Paper Bag Apple Pie Recipes

APPLE PIE IN A BROWN PAPER BAG

Steps:

• To make the bottom crust, stir the flour and white sugar together in a bowl until well-combined. Rub the unsalted butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs; sprinkle with cold water, a couple of tablespoons at a time, mixing the dough together lightly with a fork until it barely holds together.
• Form the dough into a ball and roll it out to a circle about 1/8-inch thick. Gently ease the dough into an 8-inch pie dish. Cut off any excess pastry with a knife. Finish the edge of the crust by gently pressing the tines of a fork into the dough all the way around the edge of the pie dish. Set the crust aside.
• To make the pie filling, stir the apples, brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour, the cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and lemon juice together in a large bowl; set aside.
• To make the topping, mix 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of softened butter, and the superfine sugar together in a bowl until you have a sticky, moist dough.
• To assemble the pie, cover the bottom of the pie crust with a light, even layer of graham cracker crumbs. Fill the pie with the apple mixture, piling it up in a mound shape. Pinch off pieces of the topping mixture, flatten them a little with your fingers, and dot them at random all over the top of the filling, covering as much of the filling as possible.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Tear off 2 30-inch-long pieces of parchment paper and place them in a cross shape on a work surface. Place the filled pie in the center of the two pieces of parchment, bring the paper ends up over the pie and fold and staple the parchment paper over the pie to completely enclose and seal in the pie. The paper should not touch the top or sides of the pie. Place the parchment-wrapped pie on a baking sheet to catch any drips.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Don't peek inside the parchment paper while baking. Remove from the oven, carefully tear the parchment paper away from the pie, and let cool; serve warm. Store leftovers in refrigerator.

NO GRIEF PAPER BAG APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Filling: Mix all ingredients in a large bowl and turn them into the unbaked pie shell.
• Prepare Topping: Combine flour and sugar and cut in butter until you have pea sized crumbs.
• Sprinkle topping evenly over the apples and pat down around the edges.
• Carefully slide the pie into the brown bag and fold the end under the pie plate.
• Place on a cookie sheet.
• Bake for 50 minutes.
• Remove from oven and then remove pie from when cool enough to handle.
• No burnt crust, no under baked apples and no juices spilling over into your oven!

BROWN PAPER BAG APPLE PIE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 425. Peel and thinly slice 3 or 4 apples, enough to fill an unbaked pie shell.
• 2. Mix first four ingredients with apple slices in a large bowl.
• 3. Put apple mixture into pie crust.
• 4. Mix sugar and flour and cut in soft butter. Sprinkle this topping over apples.
• 5. Put pie in large brown paper bag on cookie sheet and staple shut.
• 6. Place in oven taking care not to touch the element. Bake at 425 for 1 hour. Brown bag will scorch but will not catch fire.
• 7. Depending on your oven, you may need to take out a wire rack. The brown bag gets no bigger than what it is when you staple it shut.

APPLE PIE BAKED IN A BROWN PAPER BAG

Steps:

• In a food processor combine flour, sugar and salt. Add butter and pulse into pea-sized pieces. Add water and pulse briefly, it will still look crumbly. Transfer the crumbs to 2 pieces of wax paper and form into 2 disks. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill overnight.
• Roll out disks on a lightly floured workstation to 2" bigger than the 9" pie plate. Line the plate with one disk, and chill the other.
• Preheat oven to 375 degree F.
• Filling:.
• Toss apple slices, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg together. Transfer to pie shell and dot with butter. Brush edges of crust with water and place top crust on and pinch the edges together.
• Slide pie into a brown paper bag and fold top down. Staple and bake for 1 hour.
• Remove pie from oven and cut a large circle in the top of the bag and return to the oven to brown the crust. It should take approx 15-25 minutes.
• Let pie cool at least 30 minutes before serving.