Apple Custard Pie

Adapted from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-marlborough-pie

Ingredients

  • 1 pie crust
  • 6 tbsp butter
  • ¾ cup stewed, pureed apples (typically around 4 apples)
  • Juice of 1 lemon (2 tbsp?)
  • ¾ cup fruit juice (orange, pineapple, apricot, or peach juice)
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp grated nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions

  1. Prepare the pie crust
    • 3 cups flour
    • 1 cup shortening
    • 1½ tsp salt
    • 1 TBSP sugar
    • ½ tsp baking powder
    • ½ cup water
  2. Prepare the filling
    • Melt butter and leave to cool
    • Peel and dice apples into a pot
    • Add ground cinnamon
    • Add enough water to cover apples and boil until they are soft (~30 minutes)
    • Strain and mash apples
    • Add lemon juice to ¾ cup of stewed apples
    • Add fruit juice, cream and sugar and mix well
    • Add melted butter and mix again
    • Beat eggs and fold into apple mixture
  3. Preheat oven to 400°
  4. Roll out crust into 8″ pie tin
  5. Add grated nutmeg to the custard and spoon into the pie tin
  6. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes
  7. Reduce heat to 350° for another 45 minutes
  8. Cool before serving

Notes

This was more tart than expected. Might want to reduce or skip the lemon juice.

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