Recipe: Ollie Pearl's Stacked Hand Apple Pies (4 apple tarts stacked together)

OLLIE PEARL'S STACKED HAND APPLE PIES

8 refrigerator or homemade unbaked pie crusts
2 1/2 cups reconstituted dried apples
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons sugar (for crust topping)

Grease 4 (8-inch) tart pans with vegetable oil.

Roll each pastry into a 9-inch circle. Fit half the pastries into prepared tart pans.

Mix reconstituted apples with sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, and lemon juice. Spread about 1/2 cup apple mixture about 1/4 inch-thick in prepared pans. Top each with a remaining pastry, trimming and fluting edge. Prick tops with fork. Sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon sugar.

Bake at 375 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until light brown and edges shrink from pans. Cool briefly.

Remove pies from pans, stacking on top of each other on serving plate.

To serve, cut a wedge through all layers of the pies. Eat by picking up one layer at a time. Thus, the name, a hand pie.


Makes 24 servings
From: Pride of Kentucky by Kentucky Extension Association
Source: Best of the Best from Kentucky by Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley