On Tue 24 Feb 2009 05:42:07a, Janet Bostwick told us...

> 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
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Skillet fried pies were very common in the South.

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Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.