CARAMEL APPLE COBBLER

Steps:

• FILLING.
• Whisk together dry ingredients of filling in a medium bowl.
• Melt butter in microwave.
• Place apple juice and lemon juice in dutch oven.
• Peel, core and slice apples and place in the pot with the juices, tossing as you go.
• Add melted butter, cream and dry ingredients, stir.
• Bring to a boil over med-hi heat, stir and bring to a boil once more.
• Remove from heat.
• CRUST.
• Preheat oven to 350F and spray 8 x 11 Pyrex baking dish with Pam.
• While apples are cooking, make crust using your favorite 2 crust recipe or my ingredients above.
• Whisk dry ingredients, cut in shortening with a pastry blender or fork.
• When it reaches the consistency of peas, add ice water.
• Gently stir with a fork until all of the flour has been absorbed.
• With your hands, form the dough into a clump, then separate into two disks.
• Be careful not to overwork the dough once water has been added.
• Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 5 - 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle flour on dough board and roll dough out into a rectangle about 8 x 11.
• Using a pastry cutter or knife, cut dough into strips.
• Repeat with second disk.
• COBBLER.
• Put strips of dough around the Pyrex sides and bottom.
• Pour apples into cobbler.
• Stir together pecans, sugar and brown sugar to sprinkle on the filling.
• Place strips of dough on top of the cobbler, picking up strips to layer them in a lattice manner.
• Brush strips on top of cobbler with egg white, then sprinkle with sugar crystals and a dash of cinnamon.
• Bake for one hour.