Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie

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Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie

Recipe By : "Ohio's Perfect Pies," Ohio Magazine, September 1998
Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pies

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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4 1/2 cups apples -- sliced
1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 9-inch pie shell -- unbaked

Mix flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Put apples in large bowl and pour
flour mixture over it. Stir well. Put into shell and cover with crumb
topping. To make topping, mix 1/4 lb. butter, 1 c. flour and 3/4 c.
sugar until crumbly. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour or
until done.

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NOTES : The Steel Trolley fixed old-fashioned pies with fresh fruits and
handmade dough and serves them 24 hours a day. Co-owners Earle and
Jacki Hersman enlisted Earle's 78-year-old mother, Dorothy Sutherin, to
make the from-scratch dough at home and bring it in each morning.
Sutherin's pie teammate, 71-year-old Hazel Allison, reports to the
50s-style diner at 3:30 am to make the filling and bake the pies. "I
love it," says Allison of her job, which she works on a volunteer
basis. "If you don't enjoy what your're doning, you won't be successful
at it." The duo sells such tasty varieties as apple raisin and the
house specialty, oatmeal for $1.60 a slice. Sutherin and Allison not
only make their pies from scratch, they make them from memory; the
bakers haven't looked at a riecie since, well, as long as they can
remember. Steel Trolley Diner, 140 E. Linclon Way, Lisbon, OH,
330/424-FOOD