Cholera Pie Swiss Alpine Bacon Potatoes Apple Pie Recipes

BACON APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F.
• Mix apple pie filling, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice in a bowl and pour into pie crust (in a pie pan or tin). Smooth with a spatula.
• Create bacon weave on top of pie: Lay two strips across the pie so that they intersect in the middle and are at right angles. Turn the pie so that the lower strip points toward you. Continue adding more bacon to the left and the right, creating an alternating over-under pattern with the single strip that runs side-to-side.
• At this point, there should five or six strips of bacon pointing toward the front of the pie and one strip running side-to-side which weaves over and under the other five or six strips.
• Begin laying a strip of bacon next to the on running side-to-side. Start at one end and create an over-under pattern opposite the first one by lifting up alternating strips, laying this piece down, and replacing the strips you lifted. Continue on both sides until the pie is completely covered in a bacon lattice with an alternating over-under weave.
• Trim the ends that hang over the sides. Save these trimmings for use in recipes that call for diced bacon (you can freeze them).
• Bake 45-60 minutes, or until bacon is crispy and completely cooked. You may want to bake this over a baking sheet in case apple or bacon grease ooze over the sides.
• Cool for 10 minutes before serving. Serve with caramel praline, dulce de leche, or similar ice cream. If desired, you can cooked up the bacon trimmings and garnish the ice cream with them.

EASY SWISS APPLE PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl mix together egg and sugar.
• Add flour, baking powder, salt, apple, and nuts (if using).
• Fold into a greased pie plate.
• Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
• Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

TRADITIONAL SWISS ONION & POTATO PIE

Steps:

• Peel, halve and boil potatoes until mostly tender. Cool and slice.
• Peel and thinly slice apples.
• Melt butter in large skillet and sauté onion, leek and apples about 15 minutes, until just tender. Do not overcook.
• Add potato slices, salt, pepper and nutmeg and toss, light, trying not to break up potatoes much.
• Place pie crust in glass pie plate, add half the mixture, sprinkle to cover with cheese and add other half mixture.
• Place other pie crust on top, crimping edges and piercing to vent.
• You can brush with egg wash if you wish.
• Bake in 350°F oven for 35-40 minutes, covering crust edges with foil after 20 minutes.
• Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
• Hint: I go a bit heavy on the nutmeg.