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.