American As Apple Pie

John usually gets a roast from work around Christmas time, but the last two years it has just sat in my freezer. It's too big for just two people, in fact it's too big for 5 people, and it arrives frozen so I cant cut it into smaller pieces.
I asked him this year if he could just get a box of fruit instead not thinking that they'd send him home with 40 apples.
Well the apples aren't as fresh as they were a few weeks ago so I'm trying to use them up quickly before they spoil, last night I made apple crunch pie. It was so good, especially with vanilla ice cream.

Apple Crunch Pie

Ingredients

• 1 (9 inch) unbaked deep dish pie crust (or be lazy like me and use graham cracker crust)
• 1cup flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter
• 5 apples - peeled, cored and thinly sliced (you may or may not have left over apples depending on the apple size)
• 1 Tbs lemon juice
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 Tbs flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

Directions


1.Place rack in lowest position in oven. Heat oven to 450 degrees.

2.To Make Topping: Mix 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon; cut in butter or margarine until mixture is moist and crumbly, and clumps together easily.

3.To Make Filling: In another bowl, toss cut up apples, white sugar, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and nutmeg. Sprinkle in flour, and stir until apples are evenly coated.

4.Layer apple slices in pie shell. You will have a lot of apples, but they will shrink. Layer them higher in the middle. Pour left over juice from apple mixture over apples. Sprinkle topping evenly over apples to make a top crust.

5.Place pie on cookie sheet in oven to catch juice droppings. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 45 minutes to one hour; bake until center of pie has no resistance. If top starts to get too dark, cover with piece of foil. Cool on wire rack before serving.

Now I'm on the hunt for more apple centered recipes, I need these apples gone!