Fried Apple Pies

Recipe Rating:	2 Ratings5
Categories:	Pies, Fruit Desserts, Other Desserts, Fruit Sauces, Other Snacks, Quick & Easy, For Kids, Vegetarian
Collections:	A+ Apple Pie
Keyword:	pies
Serves:	How many you choose to make
Prep Time:	20 Min
Cook Time:	10 Min

Ingredients

1	pot of cooked apples
	sugar to your taste
	spices ( cinnamon, cloves, apple pie spice) to your taste
	peanut oil for frying.

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Bernice Mosteller

Lightly Salted

Casar, NC (pop. 297)

candychristmas

Member Since Feb 2012

Bernice's Notes:

These are great little apple pies, & you can change the fruit to a different filling, I have made peach,blueberry, sweet potato, & pumpkin. They are really great.

Directions

You can use dried fruit or fresh apples. You use your own judgement on how many apples to cook, to how many pies you want to make.

I peel,core,& slice my apples. Put them in a sauce pan with very little water & cook slowly. The apples will make some juice their self. If you get too much liquid you can add a little cornstarch to the sugar to thicken. DON"T ADD The sugar until the apples has cooked.

Take off the heat and let it get cooled off. You don't want it to be warm, it will mess the dough up.

Sometimes I make my on crust, but most of the time I just use can biscuits. I get the store brand, they work best. DON"T get the buttermilk biscuits, get the home style. The name brand usually has kosher salt, it will make little holes in the crust when you fry them. So the store works best.

Flour you pastry sheet, put a biscuit on it and roll out as if you're make a crust.Dampen the edge of the dough so it will seal off better. Place about 1 1/2 teaspoon of filling in the middle. It really depends on how much you roll the crust. You don't want it thick or too thin to tear when you're frying them. Dampen edge with water using your finger tip.

Fold over the crust, take a fork and press around the edge, turn over and repeat the edge again.

I use an electric skillet with peanut oil. Lay your pie in the skillet when you think the oil is hot enough. When you lay the pie in, it should start to sizzle around the edges. Fry it until golden brown, turn & fry on the other side.

I usually have my skillet temp. around 300 degrees, but the temp can vary on different skillet, just keep a close eye, & don't burn them.

Lay on paper towels to drain. I sprinkle with a sugar & cinnamon mixture in a salt shaker. Then enjoy!! Every time I take these pies for a get together, whether home or church, these pies disappear fast.

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Bernice Mosteller candychristmas

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Patsy Weaver loveisalive65

Apr 30, 2012

I have made these just like this for years and love them. My favorites are peach and apple. Thanks for posting.

Bernice Mosteller candychristmas

Apr 30, 2012

You're welcome. You cannot stop at eating just one.

Debby Nelson annazzassi

Apr 30, 2012

My mother used to make these and I could not find her recipe - these sound like hers. She would not make them often because they took awhile to make and my father would sit and eat almost every one in one sitting. I sure do miss those two. Thank you so much for sharing and for the unexpected memory. I will give them a try.

Dana R DRamsey

Apr 30, 2012

These remind me of the Half-Moon Pies my grandmother would always make us but she made them out of homemade applebutter! Sometimes she would put raisins in them. I loved them and have not had any since she passed away 24 years ago!!!!!!!! They were the best! Thanks for the memory!

Annette Godwin neekee

Apr 30, 2012

my mom used to make these for my dad when he was alive and he loved them.

Bernice Mosteller candychristmas

Apr 30, 2012

Thank you all for the comments. My Mother always made these too. She always used dried apples, & then cook them. Has any one of you ever dried apples for the winter time? I sometimes add some home made apple butter to my apples. I think it gives the apples a little bit of flavor of the dried apples. My family really loves apple butter. I make it in a crock pot & let it simmer all night long. Really delicious. We love to go to Pigeon Forge, Tenn. We always visit the Apple Cider Barn. You can watch through a window how they make their fried pies. They put their apples in a big pressure machine & was opening gallon size cans of White House Applesauce, sugar & their blend of spices. We always thought they used the dried fruit. They sell the dried fruit in their store. It is really expensive. I think it is $25.00 for a bag. I can't remember how many pounds is in it. I dry my own apples, so I don't buy any there. We do come home with 3 gallons of Apple Cider, it sells $6.99 a gallon & their Apple Butter Bar-B-Q Sauce is $5.98 for a 16 ounce bottle. Everything is pricey but it is really, really good. I always get 3 of whatever I'm buying so I give one of each to my 2 sons. If you ever get a chance to visit their store, try their fried pies with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.-- I'm glad it brought back good memories for you. I make them for my family so I hope it will leave good memories for them one day!

Debby Nelson annazzassi

Apr 30, 2012

I love the Apple Barn! Hope to get there this summer and pick up a few things when I visit my cousins.

Dana R DRamsey

May 1, 2012

Yeppers we dry apples in for the winter and also corn. Been doing that for so many years. Now some of our sons have taken up the tradition!

Carole Dennison cookinapple

May 1, 2012

Love fried pies but my favorite is raisin pies, and I guess I need to find out how to make dried apples so I can have some for the winter, so can some one please tell me where I can learn how to do dried apples.
Thank for sharing your recipes.

Bernice Mosteller candychristmas

May 1, 2012

Carole, To dry apples the newer version is with a food dehydrated. You peel & core the apples.,Then slice them up in thin slices, & put them on trays that comes with the dehydrated in single layers. The instructions should tell you the temperature & time frame for drying the fruit. When it is completely dry you can store it in glass jars, or in Freezer zip lock bags & keep it in the freezer. The fruit will dry & when you go to cook the apples you can add some water, apple juice Or apple cider to cook it. I can not give you the amounts, you just eyeball it to how much you are going to cook. After that you add your sugars & spices to your taste. This is the easy way compared to how we had to dry it when we were growing up. If anyone else can explain it better, feel free to join in. Lots of luck.