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Amazing Amish Apple Pie Bars

a delicious way to enjoy seasonal apples
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Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Amish

Ingredients
  

Dough

  •     3¾   cup flour
  • tablespoons sugar
  • 1½ teas salt·   
  • 2     ¾      cup vegetable shortening·
  •  ⅓    cup butter·
  • 1 cup cold water

Filling

  •  10      cups chopped apples·
  • 1⅓           cup sugar
  • ¼    cup flour
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions
 

  • Mix dough ingredients together and roll out like pie dough.
     
  • Place half of dough in thebottom of a 15 by 11 inch rimmed cookie sheet.
  • Now mix filling ingredients together and spread on top of unbaked crust.
  • Dot with severaltablespoons butter.
  •    Place another half ofrolled out dough on top of filling mixture or cut in strips and place onfilling, lattice style
  •   Beat an egg and brush on top crust
  •    Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until lightly golden brown. 
  •   Enjoy hot from the oven or chilled. Yummy with homemade vanilla ice cream!
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