Maybe I can help you with a recipe for a Dutch crumble apple pie. It is one of my own and I am Dutch…so…this one would be wright. There is only one little problem: my Englisch is not so good, but I will try.

Crumble Apple Pie with Coconut

Ingredients:
250 gram unsalted butter
200 gram white sugar (we call this basterdsuiker)
1 bag of vanilla sugar (8 grams)
1 egg
1/4 t.s. salt
500 gram all purpose flour
3 t.s. baking powder
125 gram grated coconut
200 gram apricot jam
1 Tbs custard powder
1000 gram apples light sour

Preheat the oven to 160 °C/320 °F.
Beat the butter with the sugars creamy.
Beat in the egg.
Mix the flour with the baking powder, salt and coconut and gradually blend them into the butter mixture into a crumbly dough.
Press 2/3 part of the dough in a 26 cm ø baking tin (the bottom and sides).
Make little holes with a fork in the bottom.
Peel the apples and remove the core and cut the apples into little pieces.
Add the jam and custard to the apple pieces and mix it well.
Putt the apple mixture onto the dough.
Add 1 Tbs flour to the remaining dough and mix it about 30 seconds into crumbles.
Putt these crumbles on the apple mixture.
Bake the pie in the middle of the oven in 60/70 minutes golden brown.

You can add to the apple mixture 1 handfull yellow raisins and also some cinnamon. I guess about 2 t.s. Just what you like.

Last week I baked 2 of them:
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INGREDIENTS:
1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
5 cups Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and sliced
1 cup HERSHEY®’S Cinnamon Chips
3 tablespoons butter

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup brown sugar
6 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup HERSHEY®’S Cinnamon Chips

2 eggs
1 cup half-and-half cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C.)
In a large bowl, Mix together 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Stir in sliced apples until coated with sugar mixture. Stir in 1 cup cinnamon chips. Pour filling into pie crust, and dot with 3 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle with streusel topping.
To make streusel topping: In a medium bowl, mix together 3/4 cup flour and 3/4 cup brown sugar. Cut in 6 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in remaining 2/3 cup cinnamon chips.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue baking for 35 to 40 minutes, or until filling is bubbling and streusel is golden brown. Allow to cool for at least 1 hour.
While the pie is cooling, prepare the vanilla sauce. In the top of a double boiler over medium heat, whisk together eggs, half-and-half and 1/2 cup sugar. Cook, stirring constantly, until sauce has thickened. Remove from heat, and stir in vanilla. Spoon sauce (warm or cooled) over slices of pie.

***notes from experience- I find that you don’t really need 3 Tablespoons of butter to dot the apples with since you are putting 6 Tablespoons of butter into the strusel. 1-1.5 is plenty (possibly optional), and you don’t quite need all of the cinnamon chips either. It tends to bubble over with too much butter or cinnamon chips. You could try it with a deeper dish pie crust, but I just cut the butter&chips. Put a pan underneath the pie pan (bottom rack) just in case it does bubble over. You don’t need the vanilla sauce on top, but it’s kindof fun. It takes the edge off of all the cinnamon. If you are serving with ice cream, you wouldn’t need it. Sauce recipe really makes more than we ever need as some don’t want it. I love that you put streusel on top instead of an extra pie crust.

I got this recipe from All Recipes at least 5 years ago, and it has been requested back every year since then.

Grandma Edith’s Apple Crisp

6-8 tart apples (granny smith)
1 tsp cinnamon
dash nutmeg
3/4 c flour not sifted
juice of 1 lemon
1 cup brown sugar (dark) not packed
1 stick butter (1/2 cup, 1/4 lb) leave out for awhile for softening

work flour and sugar and butter with fork or pastry cutter….until they are well blended and look like coarse meal..

wash apples … remove core and seeds slice into thin slices and place in buttered baking dish

sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg over apples and keep pouring lemon juice over apples to prevent browning

cover apples with flour,sugar,butter mixture and press down gently to cover apples completely

bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until topping looks cooked and apples appear tender

serve hot or cold

http://www.bakeorbreak.com/2006/06/26/savory-corn-muffins/

I’m considering this apple pie.

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/002710sour_cream_apple_pie_with_streusel_topping.php

Happy baking and happy Thanksgiving!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_185,00.html?rsrc=search

(If that link doesn’t work, search Kendra’s Apple Pie on Food Network’s web site.)

I read your blog sometimes, but I am one of those lame people who never, ever comments (Even when you beg. Because I am lame like that).

Anyway, this pie doesn’t have a crumble topping, but I bet you could put one on. I’m totally attracted to it. Plus, it won a prize!

http://food.sunset.com/sunset/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1117808