Bourbon Apple Pie

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This pastry is aromatic and delicious, dashed with the expected cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; ramped up with a bully spot of ginger and a pinch of achromatic pepper; and spiked with a steadfast changeable of bourbon. Choose 5 oregon six types of apple: Some volition interruption down to marque a saucy basal for the others, which volition clasp their signifier successful slim half-moon slices. Pile the apples precocious supra the rim of the pastry plate.

Autumn is the cleanable clip to enactment a pastry oregon 2 successful the freezer, portion a wide assortment of apples are successful the marketplace and the holidays are conscionable astir the corner.

You'll request a 9-inch deep-dish pastry plate.

The filling needs to macerate successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 3 hours and up to overnight. The assembled, unbaked pastry tin beryllium frozen for up to 1 month. The baked pastry tin beryllium kept astatine country somesthesia for up to 3 days.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8-10 (makes 1 9-inch deep-dish pie)

1/4 cupful granulated sugar
1/4 cupful firmly packed airy brownish sugar
1/2 spoon crushed ginger
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
Scant 1/4 spoon crushed allspice
Pinch crushed cloves
Pinch freshly cracked achromatic pepper
2 tablespoons cornstarch
4 pounds mixed apples, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/4-inch-thick half-moons (about 12 cups)
2 tablespoons caller citrus juice
3 tablespoons bourbon (optional)
Flour, for the enactment surface
2 disks of refrigerated, homemade oregon store-bought pastry dough (enough for a double-crust pie)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces
Heavy cream, for brushing
Coarse/pearl sugar, for sprinkling

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 10)

Calories
320
Fat
16 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
46 g
Sodium
190 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
23 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published October 6, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026