Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
> Does anyone have a tried-and-true recipe for skillet fried (as opposed
> to deep fried) apple pie? The DH has suddenly taken a notion for them
> and I don't have a recipe. The recipes I'm finding - even on Food
> Network (notably Paula Deen) and Epicurious - generally run to canned
> biscuits as the crust, which sounds way, way too dough-y to me. And
> regular pie crust is just too fragile, AFAICS. I gave a thought to
> using pastry sheets and flattening them, which is where I'm headed at
> the moment for lack of a better idea. The way the DH described them,
> they're apple pie filling inside what looks for all the world like an
> empanada. I actually have a recipe for empanadas, so maybe that's
> another direction I could go, although they're a tad dry and
> heavy...which brings me back to the pastry sheets.
>
> Anyone?
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd...head scratching
>
I think Alton Brown (Food Network) did a whole show on various hand pies and
I believe that the one you are talking about was skillet fried -- something
unexpected for me. I thought they were all deep fried.
Janet