Apple Pie, Naturally Sweetened With Raisins

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Apple Pie, Naturally Sweetened With Raisins

Servings: 8

 

Ingredients:

1 8 " or 9 " single crust homemade or defrosted

6 cup thinly sliced apples, peeled

1 cup golden raisins

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 pinch salt

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 tbl cornstarch

 

Directions:

Use a 10-inch pie pan with nonstick finish, sprayed with cooking spray.

Roll pastry as thin as possible and fit into pie pan. (Or transfer

defrosted commercial single crust into larger pan and press to fit with

fingertips.) Combine remaining ingredients, mix well, and spoon into

shell.

 

Cover filling with an inverted smaller pie pan, or use a circle of foil

cut 1 inch smaller, exposing crust but covering apples. Bake in a

preheated 425 oven 35 to 45 minutes, until crust is golden. Remove cover

or foil and cool pie before cutting. {195 calories per serving} PEAR

PIE: Substitute ripe, thinly sliced pears for the apples. Reduce raisins

to 1/2 cup.

 

8 servings, 195 calories each APPLE PIE SWEETENED w/ SUGAR SUBSTITUTE:

Use 6 cups sliced McIntosh apples; omit raisins. Use a glass pie pan.

Put half the filling into the crust; sprinkle with 6 to 8 tablespoons

granulated sugar substitute. Add remaining apple filling.

 

Place glass pan on the bottom rack of a preheated 425 oven. Cover

filling with inverted pie pan. Bake only 25 to 30 minutes, until bottom

crust is golden.

 

8 servings, 145 calories each PEAR PIE SWEETENED w/ SUGAR SUBSTITUTE:

Use 6 cups sliced peeled ripe pears and follow directions in preceding

paragraph. 8 servings, 175 calories each

 

SOURCE: Slim Gourmet Sweets & Treats (pg. 50-51) By KKBG35A RUTH BURKHAR