Reviewed: Feb. 15, 2010

Cooking the apples was a good idea, 1 Tablespoon of cinnamon was too much of a strong cinnamon taste and turned the apples dark brown. Next time I will try less cinnamon and nutmeg.

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sweet tooth

Reviewed: Jul. 29, 2009

Excellent! My 5 yr. old is diabetic, and loves this pie! I replaced the sugar with splenda to reduce the carbs. and added a pinch allspice for our taste. I use a simple homemade crust. now Every one I know wants the recipe. THANKS for sharing this wonderful recipe!

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bud

Reviewed: Feb. 24, 2008

I didn't have nutmeg so I didn't use any. I added a little bit of water to the apples, sugar and cinnamon so that it would be a bit juicy. It turned out great. I love apple pie!

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Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2008

Precooking the apples allows you to get the crust to fit the pie! It also allows you to adjust the sugar/spices to fit the sweetness of the apples you use. The only disadvantage is that it is very easy to overcook the apples. I find cooking apples by 'number' a bit strange as it depends on size of apples. I used about 8 cups of sliced apples for a 9" pie, 1/4 cup butter and 1/3 cup sugar (my apples were sweet) It could have used another 1/2 t of cinnamon and 1/4 t of nutmeg in my opinion. I also thickened the apples with 2T of rice flour (dissolved in about 1/4c water) and stirred into the apples at the end of precooking period. I want to experiment a bit more and try precooking the bottom crust, at least partially, to help prevent the 'soggy' and/or 'undercooked' bottom crust problem sometimes encountered--but that must wait for another day.

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keydancer

Home Town: Redding, California, USA

Living In: Big Lake, Alaska, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 21, 2008

I really like the idea of cooking the apples first. You do not get the high pie shell and the apples lower in the pie plate when its finished cooking. You know where the top pie shell is, it is sitting on top of the apple. I found it had great flavour and everyone loved it with the apples a little softer. This was great! Thanks.

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Janice

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Dec. 10, 2007

Wonderful pie! We loved how wonderful cooking the apples before baking the pie made them taste. This one is a keeper.

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SAMBOSWIFE

Reviewed: Aug. 18, 2007

This is a very easy, tasty pie...I will definitely use this recipe again!

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DEE

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Houston, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 2, 2007

I didn,t think it was sweet enough

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Michael

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Columbus, Georgia, USA

Living In: Oberlin, Kansas, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2007

My husband thought the apples tasted funny. The people I talked to never heard of cooking apples before hand, so maybe that was the problem. I am novice at baking pies, so I hate to rate this too low for it might have been something I done. I probably won't use this recipe again.

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