Amish-Style Dried Apple Pie

 

    
      It's a blustery day here in the mountains.  A bit gloomy.  Warmer than it's been lately - according to the thermometer - but cold-to-the-bone according to our bodies. It seemed like a good day to bake a pie...
     I made a dried apple pie, using apples we dried last summer.  The recipe is below.  This pie is on the tart side;  if you like a sweeter pie, use as much as twice the sugar called for in the recipe. (I like the tartness, but my Hubby said, "Honey, did you forget to put sugar in that pie?")

 

                                                                        
   Dried Apple Pie

2  1/2 Cups Dried Apples
2 1/2 Cups Water
3/4 Cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/9 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons Butter
optional: egg white, 1/4 cup sugar

     Cook dried apples in water until tender.  Add sugar, cinnamon and salt.  If it is too juicy, add a little bit of cornstarch.  Pour into pastry-lined pie pan.  Dot with butter and add top crust.  Put a few slits in the top crust for steam to escape.  Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes;  brush top with lightly beaten egg white,  sprinkle with sugar, and bake for another ten minutes.
     Enjoy, with ice cream or with a nice wedge of sharp cheddar cheese!

     Shalom  Y'all - Twyla