Skill required: Confident baker
Topping
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon apple pie spice
1/4 pound (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
3 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons Demerara sugar (raw cane brown sugar)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and apple pie spice.
3. Add butter cubes.
4. Using your fingers, rub butter into flour until mixture resembles rolled oats.
5. Add white and Demerara sugars and mix well. Refrigerate until needed.
Filling:
3 Gala apples
3 pears
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1. Peel and core apples. Cut them into quarters, then halve each quarter crosswise.
2. Keeping apples and pears separate, peel, core and cut pears the same way.
3. In a wide saucepan, combine butter, sugar and lemon juice.
4. Place over low heat until butter is melted.
5. Stir in the apples.
6. Partly cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.
7. Add pears and stir, uncovered for 1 - 2 minutes, depending on ripeness of pears.
8. Remove pan from heat and add cornstarch and cinnamon; mix well.
9. Transfer fruit mixture to a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate.
10.Remove topping from refrigerator and cover fruit thickly and evenly with topping.
11.Place pie plate on a baking sheet and bake until crumble topping is golden brown in places and fruit is bubbling beneath, about 35 minutes.
Yield 6 - 8 servings
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