Apples picked from our trees in the fall, combined with enough pastry in the freezer for a single-crust inspired me to look for a suitable pie recipe. I found one in the Mennonite Treasury of Recipes, first published in 1962, and a classic in my growing up years. I adapted the recipe slightly and am pleased with the result.
One-crust Apple Pie
1 pastry crust, rolled and placed in a 9 or 10 inch pie plate
Apples, peeled, cored, and sliced to generously fill the pastry shell - I used a combination of Liberty and Akane apples
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
1 Tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix the above and pour it over the apples. Dot the apples with
2 Tablespoons of butter in small pieces
Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over - about 1 Tablespoon.
Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 350 degrees and continue baking for 40-60 minutes, or more. The original recipe recommended just 30 minutes, but in order for the pastry to cook thoroughly, and for the flour taste to disappear from the brown sugar mixture, it needed much longer.
