Ingredients

  • Dough for 1 pie crust (see Butter-and-Shortening Pastry Dough recipe)
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 ½ cups dates, pitted and chopped
  • 1 ½ cups Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped
  • Crumble Topping (see recipe)

    1 pie

    Preparation

    1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll the dough out to a disk 11 inches in diameter and ease it into a 9-inch pie pan. Trim the edges.
    2. Sprinkle the sugar, cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of water over the dates and apples, and mix well. Transfer to the pie pan. Top with 1 cup of the crumb recipe. Bake until the filling bubbles, about 60 minutes.

    1 hour 15 minutes

    Dining and Cooking