Name: Mile-High Apple Pie
Yield: Makes 8 to 10 Large slices, Full of Fruit
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 8 to 10 large tart baking apples; ½ cup sugar; sugar; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces milk; 1½ recipes piecrust dough for Grape Pie, using chilled duck fat instead of lard; grated zest of 1 lemon; freshly grated nutmeg to taste; 1 tablespoon rice flour

Preparation info

Makes
8 to 10 slices
, Full of Fruit

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hoppin John’s Lowcountry Cooking

By John Martin Taylor

Published 1992

About

This overstuffed apple pie is topped with a glorious dome of a crust made with duck fat. The crust is pushed down with the palm of the hand before being sliced.

Ingredients

For the Crust

1½ recipes piecrust dough for Grape Pie, using chilled duck fat instead of lard

Method

Make the crust exactly like the crust for the grape pie (preceding recipe), but be sure that all of the ingredients and utensils are chilled—duck fat melts at a lower temperature than lard. Make 1½ times the recipe given for the lattice-topped grape pie and use chilled duck fat. Fill a