Sour Cream Apple Pie

Directions

Place the streusel topping ingredients in a medium bowl and mix with a fork or your hands until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Chill in the refrigerator until the topping is needed half-way through the baking. oven to 400 degrees F with a rack in the middle and another rack below it. Place a large rimmed baking sheet on the lower rack to catch any of the drippings from the pie.

In a large bowl put the sour cream, sugar, flour, salt, vanilla, and egg. Use a wooden spoon and beat by hand until smooth. Fold in the apples and stir until all of the apples are coated with the sour cream filling mixture. the filling into a frozen pie shell. For the first stage of baking, bake the pie for 25 minutes at 400 degrees F. the first 25 minutes, remove the pie from the oven and sprinkle the top with the brown sugar butter flour topping mixture. You may also want to put a pie protector or foil around the outer crust edges to keep them from getting too browned. Bake for another 20 minutes at 400 degrees F.

Let the pie cool on a rack for one hour before cutting and serving.