Easy Fried Apple Pies

Ingredients:


Apple Filling:

5 apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1/2 cup water
3 Tbs. sugar
1/4  tsp. salt,  {add more if needed}
2 tsp. cinnamon

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.  Then cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes or until apples are tender.  Drain and reserve liquid.

Mash apples with a potato masher or fork.  Add back liquid a little bit at a time.  If the apple mixture gets too runny, mix 2-3 tablespoons of flour in 3/4 c. of reserved liquid or water, mix well, then add it back into the mashed apples.

Set aside and allow to cool.

Fried Apple Pie Dough:

2 c. flour
3/4 tsp. salt
4 tsp. baking powder
1/3 c. Crisco
1 c. milk
Extra flour

Mix dry ingredients, then cut in Crisco with a pastry cutter.  Add milk and stir.  The dough will begin to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

Place the dough onto a {very} well floured surface – a pastry cloth or wax paper work great! Be generous with the flour!

Knead the dough for 6 minutes then pat down until 1/2″ thick or so.

Cut out biscuits until all the dough is used.



To make a pie…take a cut out biscuit and pat it out.



Then roll it out in a circle until it’s about 1/8 inch thick.



Add 2 tablespoons of filling to the pie.  Trust me on this, if you add much more the filling will come leaking out.



1. Dampen one side of the dough with a bit of water. I like to have a little cup of water nearby.

2. Fold the pie in half and press edges together.

3. Crimp the edges with a floured fork.



Carefully place a pie in a skillet of hot oil.  Use tongs to gently turn when the pie is browned.

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