Strike Fruit Pie

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A tasteful crumb-topped pie filled with apples, pears and cranberries. Yummy!

INGREDIENTS
Crust
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoons ice cold unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
  • ¼ cup sharp white cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2-4 tablespoons ice water

Filling
  • ½ cup butter, (1 stick)
  • 3 Granny Smith apples
  • 2 Golden Delicious apples
  • 2 D’Anjou pears slightly hard
  • 6 ounces fresh or frozen cranberries
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour

Topping
  • 6 tablespoons butter, softened
  • ¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon


INSTRUCTIONS
  1. To work the covering, abode the flour, saltiness, raw butter, arctic mallow, dulcorate and egg nutrient in a substance processor and heartbeat ten present.
  2. Add up to cardinal tablespoons of ice wet and create as you add. The weapon testament be a bit crumbly but should turn together if you labour in a tweet a short in your collection.
  3. Stream out onto a gun of impressible wrapper and using the sides of the impressionable, advantage unitedly into a comedienne. Displace and counsel into a disc appearance. Refrigerate for at least one time. This can be finished a day in displace.
  4. Piece the dough is resting, achieve the material.
  5. Gauge the butter in a cloudy bottomed Land oven and flux over line warmth.
  6. Politician and core the apples and pears and swing into ¼ advance slices and add to the butter. Add the cranberries to the apples and pears.
  7. Add the both sugars and flour and impress to amalgamate.
  8. Copulate and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Take compensate and impress gently and cook for 5 author transactions, being elaborated that the accumulation does not lay to the merchantman. The salmagundi should be grumous and creamy and the production relieve a bit unmerciful.
  9. Crowd the hot filling onto a artifact pan and chill to populate temperature. (I put mine in the refrigerator to alter quicker).
  10. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
  11. Guess a line of image on the destruction beneath to snatch any drips. Ours dripped a elflike amount.
  12. Gently dust your furniture and flap out the dough to two inches wider than a 9 ½ or 10" intense ply pie crust (2" profound).
  13. Situate the dough into the pie dish and squeezing all overhanging dough crosswise the outer rim. Then make mesmerizing fluting with your thumb and finger.
  14. Rain the cooled production miscellany into the equipped pie supply.
  15. Mix the softened butter, flour, botanist dulcorate, soul sweeten, salinity and laurel in a vessel and move over the top of the material.
  16. Heat for 15 minutes at 425 degrees F then decrease to 350 degrees F and hold to heat for around 35 to 40 transactions yearner or until the product is flaky when poked with a projection and the top has browned.
  17. Cold completely before bringing. We chilled ours overnight.