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
- Prepare the pie crust
- 3 cups flour
- 1 cup shortening
- 1½ tsp salt
- 1 TBSP sugar
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup water
- 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
- Preheat oven to 400°
- Roll out crust into 8″ pie tin
- Add grated nutmeg to the custard and spoon into the pie tin
- Bake at 400° for 15 minutes
- Reduce heat to 350° for another 45 minutes
- Cool before serving
Notes
This was more tart than expected. Might want to reduce or skip the lemon juice.