Day 232 Pear Apple Crisp

Pear Apple Crisp

The Fruit
4 Apples, peeled and thinly sliced
4 Pears, peeled and thinly sliced
2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
Juice of 1 Lemon

The Crisp Topping
1/2 Cup White Flour
1 Cup Hard Cookies, crushed
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
Pinch salt
4 Tablespoons Earth Balance

Sliced fruit with brown sugar

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.  Toss the sliced fruit with the sugar and lemon juice.  Lay in the bottom of a large pie pan.

2.  Combine all the dry ingredients for the topping in a bowl.  Cut the butter into small pieces and work into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter and your fingers.  The texture should be crumbly and starting to hold together.

Cookies for crumbling

3.  Cover the fruit with the crisp topping.  Bake for 40 minutes or until the topping is browned.

finished pie

Soundtrack Evanescence - Fallen