Fried Apple Pies

[midlf]

"a walking heat-attack causer"

A number of years ago, when he was still alive, I took my dad, and his cardiac problems, out for lunch. He had a bacon swiss butter burger. I asked him what his cardiologist would think of that. He replied "I'm not gonna tell him. I figure it will shorten my life by the same amount of time it takes me to eat it, and it sure is good."

He also hated ambulances and fuss and said: "If I'm having a heart attack I'd rather die than have you call 911." I said: "That's how it works."

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Fried Apple Pies


1/2 pound dried apples
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 stick margarine
1 8-piece package of Grands butter flaky biscuits

Cover apples with water, add sugar and margarine and cook until soft.
Let cool.
Roll biscuts out on a lightly floured surface so that each biscuit forms a 7 or 8 inch circle.
Place 2-3 tablespoons of apples on biscuit.
Brush the edges of the circle with water.
Fold the circle over the filling to make a half-moon shape.
Seal by pressing the edges with the tines of a fork.

Heat a deep fryer filled with several inches of oil to 350 degrees F.

Carefully add pies to the oil, 1 at a time and fry until golden brown, turning the pies for even browning, about 5 to 8 minutes.
Drain on paper towels.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar immediately.

(Optional: May add apple pie spices to filling to suit your taste while cookin apples)


This is the current recipe my wife uses. The dried apples make the best fried pies. You can use fresh cooked apples but the dried are the best.

The butter biscuits (not buttermilk) are the best to use as the dough. She has in the past used her on recipe for the dough but the Grands butter biscuits (that little fat doughboy guy)are excellent for fried pies.
These things are great right out of the frier, wounderful at room temperture, excellent cold.
My mother-in-law makes hers the old fasion way in a frying pan (just in case you don't have a deep frier).

Try it and let me know how they turned out.

P.S. Don't forget to add ice cream while there hot.

Also 1/2 lb of apples makes about 16 pies.

 

[Bird]

That sounds just like what my brother-in-law and his wife made recently, but with these exceptions:
1. Instead of brushing the edges of the circle with water, they used a beaten egg,
2. I don't know which canned biscuits they used; they certainly weren't bad, but it wasn't a flaky crust,
3. They have their own apple trees and used apples they'd frozen instead of dried apples.
I guess we're going to have to try it with the Grands flaky biscuits.

 

[DrRod]

You asked about some unique regional foods. Well there's one thing I crave that I've only seen in German butcher shops in PA: ham loaf.

Its like meat loaf but made with ham and sometimes has some pineapple juice added. Its sweet and salty and appeals to all the senses. And its a great base for all those relishes people give you (like zuchinni relish) that you don't know what to do with.

Great for dinner and then sliced and pan-grilled with eggs for breakfast. Yum.

Hey, you know the trouble with German food? 48 hours later you're hungry again. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Volfandt]

Vanilla icecream on a hot apple pie is one of my main dee-serts /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Course peach cobbler with said vanilla icecream tain't bad either /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I knew I'd get hungry reading this thread /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Volfandt

 

[DAP]

Are you tryin to tell me that there is such a things as a Fried Chocolate Pie?

Are ya?

 

[Bob_Skurka]

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They sell them at the store, right next to the Teewurst!!!!

 

[Bird]

Yep, Doug, they had chocolate fried pies; pretty good, too.

 

[KentT]

Yep... they're still available in some places, primarily the South... My aunt used to make "fried butter pies" where the filling was sugar and fresh farm butter. The sugar would carmelize just a little while frying and the butter would make it gooey sweet....

That was before anyone thought about saturated fats... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Richard]

Just wanted to put out a big THANK YOU for the idea and recipe. I made some fried apple pies yesterday morning for breakfast and they were a RESOUNDING success. Everyone loved them (including me, who had 3 /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif)

Almost making my mouth water again just typing about them.

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[IslandTractor]

OK, you got this Yankee interested. Now, the apples etc are no problem up here but the biscuit dough might be a challenge this far north. We've heard of biscuits /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif but I had no idea there were so many varieties. I googled the brand name you provided and found about thirty variations. The closest I found seems to be a Pillsbury product. Photo attached. Is that the right one?

Might have to try to substitute maple syrup (the real stuff) for the sugar once I've made the originals. That would be in the American melting pot tradition, right? If that works out we'll post the "Yankee Fried Apple Tractor Pie" recipe. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Richard
Be very careful; these things are addictive /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

IslandTractor,
That is the kind of biscuits my wife uses when she does not make her own.

Let me know how the maple syrup works out. When my friend goes home to visit in NH he always brings me back a bottle or two of maple syrup.

 

[IslandTractor]

I'll let you know how the maple syrup version turns out. I'm off on a trip so it may be a few weeks...

 

[rogdan]

Great recipe, we enjoyed them as part of Christmas dinner.

 

[dmccarty]

GREAT recipie. I made them this morning. They cooked very quickly, matter of seconds. I tossed the first one in turned around to make some more and the first one was past done. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Good thing Grandpa likes 'em that way. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Next time I'll have them all ready to go before I get the oil hot. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I added one teaspoon of nutmeg and two of cinniman which made it really yummy.

It was a big hit this morning.

Later,
Dan

 

[hunterridgefarm]

dmccarty,
Glad to help add a few pounds to a fellow Tarhill.

My wife is making more on 12/30 since I told her I need to lose 10 lbs starting Jan.

I need to get back in my 34's and out of these 36's (my winter waist size).

At 5' 11" and 238lbs I may have to lose 15lbs. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[Bird]

Bird
Next time your heading North on I-35, stop in Gainesville at the Fried Pie Company, they are excellent (202 W Main St
Gainesville, TX 76240 940-665-7641)!

The Best Fried Pies in Texas - therefore the World Dec 28th, 2004:

"Do yourself a favor and and exit California Street the next time you pass through Gainesville, Texas. You will come back for more. Excellent fried pies, hot out of the fryer if you time your visit properly. Phone ahead because it's sort of a first come, first serve affair - once they run out for the day they run out for the day. Take home a dozen or two and amaze your friends and family."

Marty, it's only been 8 months, and we finally made a special trip to Gainesville this morning to try those fried pies. We'd been by there a couple of times in the past, but they were closed each time. Now their fried pies were certainly good, but the best? To tell the truth I was disappointed. Mother's Pie Company in Dallas spoiled me I guess. I haven't found any as good as theirs.

 

[ratter]

Are the dried apples something you would find at the grocery store with the raisins, etc?

 

[dmccarty]

In my store the dried apples are with the raisins. I think they are all in/near the baking section/aisle.

Later,
Dan