I'm making another today the brown bag I didn't feel comfy using oven started getting smokey so had to ditch the bag this time I'm using what they call red baking apples

??? Never heard of those. Not that I know that much about apples. I cook with Granny Smith and eat Galas or Johnna Golds. Fujis are pretty close to Galas but not as crisp. I grew up eating Red Delicious like everybody else but I like the crunchy ones better.

If you put a little strip of foil about an inch wide gently curved over the edge of the crust you can keep the edge from burning. Just remove it a few minuted before the pie is ready and let the edge brown with the rest of crust. If I don't do this I end up with burned edge or doughy middle crust.

So how did number one turn out? other that the smoke and bag?

Yum. Where is heaven anyway?

its a secret location

I'm in Manvel, there is a place nearby called "Almost Heaven". I posted a Texas Joke yesterday about Texas and Heaven. It just struck me as a coincidence. I'm about twenty miles south of houston.

My old roomate who is from the South, where they bake a lot of pies told me the secret to making the best apple pie is to use as many different kinds of apples as you can find so u get the taste and texture of each one. She did make the best apple pie ever!

Personally I like Granny Smith the best but yeah the more variety for the pie, the better.

I think she also added some Lemon juice to the apples, brings out flavor

My old roomate who is from the South, where they bake a lot of pies told me the secret to making the best apple pie is to use as many different kinds of apples as you can find so u get the taste and texture of each one. She did make the best apple pie ever!

Personally I like Granny Smith the best but yeah the more variety for the pie, the better.

I like to use a mixture of at least 2 kinds of apples. Usually fuji and then some kind of tart apple. The sweet n tart compliment each other.
Also, I always sprinkle in a little lemon.

I think she also added some Lemon juice to the apples, brings out flavor

I'm making another today the brown bag I didn't feel comfy using oven started getting smokey so had to ditch the bag this time I'm using what they call red baking apples

1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
6 medium baking apples peeled and sliced
1 pie crust (9 inch) unbaked
1/2 cup butter melted
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour

InstructionsMix 1/2 cup sugar, 2 Tbsp flour, and the cinnamon together and toss with apples. Heap into the pie shell. Combine butter, 1/2 cup sugar, and 1/2 cup flour to make a thin paste. Spread paste over apples, coating evenly. Place pie in a brown paper bag and close securely with paper clips or staples.

Place pie in center of the oven rack, taking care that the paper bag does not come in contact with any interior oven surface. Bake in pre-heated 400 degree oven for 1 hour. when pie is done, cut away the bag.

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 335 Calories; 18g Fat (46.8% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 43g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 31mg Cholesterol; 263mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 3 1/2 Fat; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrates

i made this yesterday, and i have to say it IS the best apple pie ever!! i was a little skeptical about the paper bag in the oven, but i didn't have to call the fire department either!! thanks for posting tina!! D-Licious!!