Apple crisp is one of my favorite desserts. Any kind of crisp actually, but apple is always great. I have a recipe I normally use in Best Desserts cookbook but that is in a box somewhere at the moment, so I used a different one. It turned out really well. I took it to a family dinner and everyone loved it. My modifications are in red below.
Ingredients:
10 cups granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I used 8 medium, but it could have done with more. Also, peeling is optional. I only peeled half of them and the skin was fine.)
1/2 cup white sugar
2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup water
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, melted
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degree C).
Place the sliced apples in a bowl and toss with the white sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, ground cinnamon, and water. Spread out in a 9x13 glass dish.
Combine the oats, 1 cup flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and melted butter together. Crumble evenly over the apple mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 45 minutes. (I did more like an hour, just to make sure the apples were cooked. And they were.)
Notes: I made this using buckwheat flour instead of all-purpose as a gluten free option. It worked pretty well. I cooked it for an hour and 15 minutes. The topping gets slightly soft after the dish cools and sits for a while, but still has some crunch.
NOTES USING DRIED: How to adapt for dried apples from food storage: Measure 6 cups of apples and simmer a few minutes in 8 cups water with lid on. Then pour off water, saving it. Then use the apples like you would fresh, except add in 1.5-2 cups liquid back instead of the 1/4 cup water the recipe mentions. Then do topping as normal. Bake at 400 for no more than 35 minutes.
NOTES for dried apple pie: combine 4 cups apples with 3 cups water. Boil for a few minutes. Then mix with 2/3 of quantities that go into crisp filling. For topping mix half batch of crumble topping listed for crisp. Then bake on bottom rack for 45+ minutes
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