It was a quiet, rain soaked Thanksgiving. It was just Karen & me for a turkey dinner. I made an apple pie, trying a tip I heard on NPR a couple of days ago.
This may just be one of those non-problem problems, but when you make a deep dish, two crust, apple pie, the apples cook down. The upper crust starts out resting on the apples, but at the end of baking, the apples have retreated, leaving an "air plane hanger-sized void between the apples and the crust.
The solution: cook down the apples before baking the pie. I made the filling first, adding a few bits of chopped candied ginger and a small handful of craisons. Throw this in a crock pot and let it cook while making the crust.
This didn't result in a lot of cooking. The results of the filling-crust void were inconclusive, but the pie turned out pretty good. Catching the afternoon light through the kitchen window, I am happy with the picture too.
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