Fried Apple Pies

A family favorite for generations…..

Cooking fried apple pies is like winning the lottery. Mention it and suddenly everyone is your friend! Lol……..that’s a true story. In reality, that’s a good thing because if we were to eat all 16 that this recipe makes oh my – talk about a sugar rush!

We peel, slice and dry our own apples. My grandparents used to have old fashioned “apple-dryings” where neighbors and friends would come over and they’d spend the day peeling, slicing and drying apples in the tobacco barn. We still have access to those old tobacco barns, but we prefer to dry ours in the greenhouse.

If you don’t have access to dried apples, you can make these pies by using apple pie filling or fresh apples cooked down to make your own apple pie filling.

Ingredients:

2 – 8 count rolls of Grands Biscuits
Flour
1 Quart of Dried Apples (You can use canned Pie Filling or Fresh Apples cooked down into your own pie filling)
1 1/2 cup of sugar
1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
1 Tablespoon Nutmeg

We cook our apples in water to reverse the dehydration process. Fill the sauce pan 1/2 way full with water and 1 quart of dried apples. Cook until tender then add spice and sugar. Sample the filling to make sure that it’s sweet or spicy to your liking.

At this point we begin rolling out our biscuit dough on a well floured surface such as a cutting board. Put a heaping spoonful of filling in the center, fold the pie crust over the filling and seal the edges. We use both our fingers and a fork to seal. It’s important that you get the biscuit dough sealed so the pies don’t open up on you when flipping them in the frying pan.

We fry ours in Crisco but you can use cooking oil. Sometimes we fry these on a griddle, sometimes in a frying pan but my favorite way to fry them is in a Cast Iron Skillet. As they turn golden brown we flip them and you can’t forget to “fry the edge”, the middle or the bottom as some call it.