Apple Molasses Pie

Name: Apple Molasses Pie
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ¼ c. melted butter or margarine; ¼ c. flour; Pastry for 2-Crust Pie; ¾ c. light molasses; ¼ c. water; 1 tblsp. lemon juice; ½ tsp. salt; 6 c. sliced peeled apples

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1965

About

Good way to salvage windfall apples —pie has that brown-sugar butter taste

Ingredients

Pastry for 2-Crust Pie
¾ c. light molasses
¼ c. water

Americas
United States
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

Combine molasses, water, lemon juice and salt and bring to a boil.
Add apples, cook until tender and remove from syrup.
Blend butter and flour and add to hot syrup gradually, stirring constantly. Cook until thick and smooth. Fold apples lightly into syrup. Cool slightly. Turn into pastry-lined 9" pie pan, top with pastry lattice.