Apple-Pie in a Bag. The apples they use in their pies come from Michigan and the crust is not your typical pie dough — it's sort of cookie-like but has lard in it (except the version they make for Whole Foods, which uses vegetable shortening). Slide the pie into the brown paper bag and fold the top down. Our Gourmet Apple Pie in a bag was named "best pie in America" by the Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Milwaukee Magazine, and Food Network!

Place pie in jelly-roll pan or on cookie sheet. Set pan on rack in center of oven (make sure bag does not touch oven walls or oven racks). Bake a pie. in a bag! You can cook Apple-Pie in a Bag using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Apple-Pie in a Bag

1. Prepare 5 of each Granny. Smith. Apple.
2. Prepare 2 tbsp of cornstarch.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of Sugar.
4. You need 1 tsp of Fresh lemo/n juice.
5. You need 1 tsp of Pure vanilla extract.
6. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Ground. cinnamon.
7. You need 1 dash of salt.
8. Prepare 1 dash of ground nutmeg.
9. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of cold unsalted butter, cut into piece.

Dreckman and her daughter manage to bake a pie, in a paper bag, without starting a fire :-). Place pie in a brown paper grocery bag. Still, this old-fashioned, brown paper bag method is still employed by America's most famous paper bag apple pie bakers. The bakers at The Elegant Farmer in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, have been featured on none other than Bobby Flay's Throwdown.

Apple-Pie in a Bag instructions

1. Make the filling in a medium bowl, toss the apples slices, sugar, cornstarch, lemon juice, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg together..
2. Transfer to the pie shell and I put the butter..
3. Brush the overhanging edge of the dough with water or egg wash.
4. Carefully cover with the rolled-out top crust and pinch the edges together, turning them under all around to make a thick edge ..
5. To decorate the rim, press it all around with the back of a fork, or just pinch it to seal. With a scissors, cut a few V-vents in the center..
6. Slide the pie into the brown paper bag fold a top down. Staple. bag shut and bake for 1 hour @ 375°F.
7. Remove the pie from the oven and cut out a large cicrle. in top of the bag. Return to the oven and bake until the crust is golden brown..
8. Let the pie cool at least 30 minutes before serving. Serve warm or at room temperature..

Baking your apple pie in a bag means that your apple filling is always always always perfectly tender. It also ensures that your crust is extra special flaky even without blind-baking the bottom crust. Set pie plate and dough for top aside. Place the pie onto a rimmed baking sheet, and create a bag out of parchment paper. A wide variety of Apple pie in bag products are most popular in United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.