I'm gonna make a plain ol apple pie with canned pie filling and Jiffy crust mix. Is there anything I can add or do to make it a little more interesting?
Thanks.
2007-11-20 14:59:37 · 21 answers · asked by a person 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Of course it would be better with real apples, but I don't have time to go 15 miles to the nearest store that sells apples. I had to make do with the dolla stow
2007-11-20 15:41:46 · update #1
Try some or all of these ideas:
Add spices, such as 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, or nutmeg, or 1/8 tsp of ground cloves, or a combination of them, to the filling (stir them into the filling before you put it into the botton crust).
Before you add the top crust, dot the top of the filling with about 3 tbsp of butter, then add your top crust as usual.
Cut pretty designs into the top crust for vents (when the juices bubble up).
Brush the top crust with a mixture of 1 egg white & 1 tsp water, then sprinkle it lightly with sugar, 5 minutes before the end of baking.
Happy Thanksgiving!
2007-11-20 15:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Mother Amethyst 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mix about a half a cup of applesauce to the apples, or a handful of some frozen or fresh berries. Do a lattice top pie. Add several pats of real butter between the apples and the top crust, and brush the top crush with egg wash. YUM!
2007-11-20 15:08:13 · answer #2 · answered by Stu 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Take filling and add a little flour and cinnamon. Top with 1 stick of butter cut into pieces, 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. spread over pie. Bake until topping is brown. (about 45 minutes to an hour at 350 *F)
2007-11-20 15:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a restaurant in Seattle called Andy's Diner - all the places where you eat are railroad cars. When my mother worked before she married, she would love to go there and have their apple pie. What was special about their pie wasn't so much the pie itself as what they served on it. They would take red hot candies and make a sauce out of them and that was poured over the pie with a dollop of vanilla ice cream. The pie was also heated. My mother still talks about how much she loved their pie to this day and she's 84 now.
So, try a cinnamon sauce (made with red hot candies) to serve over the pie with some vanilla ice cream.
2007-11-20 16:44:29 · answer #4 · answered by Rli R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Use this instead of a top crust:
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon sugar
Dash salt
1 tablespoon butter, at room temperature
Then bake at 350 until golden brown and filling is bubbly. Melt a few tablespoons of caramel apple dip and drizzle over the top.
2007-11-20 15:39:31 · answer #5 · answered by tmanpie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
add spices like cinnamon and fresh nutmeg, the most special thing I do is make cute cut outs in the top crust with mini cookie cutters instead of the just the slits. Like make small hearts and put the cut out hearts somewhere else on top of the crust or next to the cut out. Does that make sense?
2007-11-20 15:03:06 · answer #6 · answered by JungleJane 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This a recipe utilising the given apples you suggested. Applesauce will selection in texture and style counting on the diversity of apple used. All-purpose apples consisting of Granny Smith, Rome attractiveness, Fuji and Jonagold (besides as many others) produce good outcomes. 8 great apples, peeled, cored and shrink into thick slices one million/2 cup water 2 lemon slices one million/2 cup sugar one million/8 teaspoon nutmeg one million/4 teaspoon cinnamon integrate apples, water and lemon slices in a huge saucepan. Simmer, uncovered for 10 minutes or till apples are section sauce and with some chunks of apple left. Watch heavily and stir in lots of situations to dodge burning. Applesauce could be thick; upload greater water if needed. go away sauce chunky or positioned apples and lemons with the aid of a nutrition mill or coarse sieve. Stir in sugar to needed sweetness. upload cinnamon and nutmeg. Serve heat or chilled. conceal and refrigerate leftovers for as much as a minimum of one week. Yield 5 to six cups. To make unsweetened applesauce: bypass over further sugar and choose a for sure candy style consisting of Golden scrumptious, crimson scrumptious or Gala.
2017-01-05 22:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by barlag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cant imagine doing anything to this to make it even taste good.
If you really want to make it special, make it from scratch. That horrible canned pie filling wont make it any different from a pie in a vending machine.
2007-11-20 15:17:01 · answer #8 · answered by purplewaterhorse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I add a can of peaches in heavy syrup to my apple pie. It is SO good. I also love the crumbly top that you make with flour, butter and sugar.
2007-11-20 15:12:47 · answer #9 · answered by FL Sunshine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can get cookie cutters and have little holes in the crust, or just go around the edge with knife and make a pattern. Presentation is everything.
2007-11-20 15:02:46 · answer #10 · answered by raisingmorals89 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋