Grandma's Apple Crumble Pie
 
Ingredients
Crust:
  • 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt
  • 8 Tablespoons salted butter, cold and cubed
  • 3 Tablespoons cold water
Filling
  • 3 granny smith apples (about 1.5 lbs)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Crumble Topping:
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ⅓ cup salted butter
Instructions
Crust:
  1. Mix flour, sugar, and salt together with a spatula.
  2. Using a pastry cutter or 2 knives, cut the cold butter into the flour until it resembles coarse meal. The butter chunks should be as small or smaller than green peas.
  3. Mix in the cold water and stir with a fork until the mixture is raggedy. If it is a little crumbly, don't worry because you'll take care of that in the next step. If it seems way too crumbly though, add more water 1 teaspoon at a time.
  4. Transfer dough to a floured work surface and gently work the dough together with your hands.
  5. Flatten the dough into a disc and roll the dough out with a floured rolling pin into a 12-inch circle. As you are rolling the dough, turn the dough circle a couple times to make sure it is not sticking to the counter and add more flour to your work surface as needed.
  6. Transfer the 12-inch dough circle to a 9-inch pie dish. To transfer the dough without tearing it, loosely wrap the pie dough around your rolling pin and then unroll it over your pie dish.
  7. Trim the edges so there is only about ½ inch of overhang. Crimp the edges by first folding over the overhang. Then using both hands, pinch the edges between your thumb and first finger of one hand and your thumb and first finger of the other hand.
  8. Refrigerate while you cut the apples.
Filling:
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
  2. Peel the skin off of the apples. Cut the apple into quarters and then slice the quarters into 5 or 6 slices.
  3. Arrange the apple slices in the pie crust.
  4. Mix the sugar and cinnamon together and pour over the apples.
Crumble Topping:
  1. Mix the sugar, cinnamon, and flour together.
  2. Cut in the butter until the mixture is crumbly. I like to smash the butter with the back of a fork. You could also use a pastry cutter or 2 knives.
  3. Pour the crumble over the top of the pie.
  4. Cover the edges of the pie crust with tin foil so it does not burn and place the pie on a cookie sheet.
  5. Bake for 30 minutes and then remove the aluminum foil and bake for another 10 minutes or until the crumble and the crust is golden brown.
  6. Cool on a wire rack.
Store covered in the refrigerator.
Recipe by Birch Tree Baking at https://www.birchtreebaking.com/grandmas-apple-crumble-pie/