French Apple Pie

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
  • Servings: 8
  • About This Recipe

    “This is a great recipe given to me by my Mother in law. This is my husband’s favorite pie and I love making it for him. Even if you don’t like raisins too much, they are not overwhelming.”

    Ingredients

  • 29 inch pie crusts, unbaked
  • 6granny smith apples, peeled,cored and sliced into 1/8 inch thin( or any tart apples)
  • 1cupraisins
  • 1tablespoonlemon juice
  • 3/4-1cupwhite sugar
  • 1/2 teaspooncinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoonsalt
  • 2tablespoons flour or 2tablespoonscornstarch
  • 1teaspoonfresh lemon rind
  • Icing

  • 1cupconfectioners’ sugar
  • 1 -2tablespoonmilk
  • Directions

  • Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
  • Place one crust in a 9 inch pie pan.
  • Mix apple slices and raisins and place in pie shell.
  • Sprinkle with lemon juice.
  • Mix remaining ingredients (not Icing) and sprinkle on top of apples and raisins.
  • Dot with butter if desired and place 2nd crust on top.
  • Crimp or flute edges as desired.
  • Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 375 degrees and Bake 40 more minutes.
  • When pie is cool, mix the icing and drizzle over the crust.
  • Reviews

  • “Wonderful recipe! This cooked up really nice. Thank you!!!”

  • “made this several times, everyone loves it. Making it for the holidays everyone wants one”

  • “I made this pie with Pillsbury premade crusts and it turned out really well. I used cranberries instead of raisins, but it was pretty tart, so next time I’m going to make it with raisins. I thought it was a little too sweet with the cup of sugar so I recommend using only 3/4 cup.”

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