# Trying to find an apple pie recipe with cooked syrup?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482 "2018-10-25T04:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/1 "2018-10-25T04:32:00Z")
Hey all, So I used to have this great apple pie recipe. It had a feature I’ve never seen anywhere else: the sugar and butter were cooked to make a syrup and then poured over the apples. It was just a whole new pie flavor revelation. 🙂 I can’t find the recipe, of course, and I really want to make the pie for Halloween!! Does this sound familiar to anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/2 "2018-10-25T05:44:57Z")
IDK. Sounds like a caramel apple pie. I can’t find a recipe, my Pinterest fu ain’t too good. The pie, as I remember was extra goo-ey. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/3 "2018-10-25T06:40:57Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/4 "2018-10-25T07:30:07Z")
I’ve found several recipes like this but they all seem to use corn syrup along with sugar and butter. Was there corn syrup in the recipe you’re looking for? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/5 "2018-10-25T13:21:37Z")
The way I make all fruit pies is basically the same. Blind bake the pie crust. While that’s happening, make a simple syrup 1 cup sugar to 1/2 cup water. Boil the water before adding the sugar and you won’t have to stand there stirring for an hour. Remove from heat when desired thickness and color have been reached. Take the syrup off the heat and add whatever spices you want, and then dump in the fruit. Stir well so the syrup cooks the fruit evenly. Dump the mixture into the pie crust and bake again until heated through and bubbling. If you’re doing a peach or an apple pie and want a caramel flavor to it, then let the simple syrup heat until golden brown. If you are adding nuts, put those in first and the syrup will toast them a bit, very yummy! Let it cool just a touch before adding the spices. If it starts to turn to candy on you, don’t panic, just add some water and heat gently until it dissolves again. ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/6 "2018-10-25T16:22:25Z")
I think that was basically the idea (the cooked sugar and water syrup.) I don’t think the original recipe had corn syrup. that have been said, though, I’m going to make this with glucose syrup. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/7 "2018-10-25T19:44:49Z")
I remember making a pie in middle school home-ec class that was like that but used ritz crackers instead of apples. I think it was called mock apple pie. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/8 "2018-10-25T19:55:43Z")
I’ve done something similar before but instead of corn or cooked sugar syrup, I’ve used molasses. Drop some ice cream on it and it’s kinda tasty if I say so. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/9 "2018-10-26T11:32:48Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > If it starts to turn to candy on you, don’t panic, just add some water and heat gently until it dissolves again. Five to 10 ml of corn syrup will prevent this type of crystallization. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/10 "2018-10-26T11:41:08Z")
Rose Levy Beranbaum has a [variation on this idea](https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/the-best-all-american-apple-piev), which is an incredible pain in the ass but results in a magnificent pie. You coat the apples in sugar and then put them in a colander over a bowl for several hours, collecting the drippings. Then you boil the drippings down until they caramelize, and pour that back over the apples. I rarely make her recipes, and when I do I go backwards through the recipe to set up a “T-minus”, so that I don’t miss some place where she wants me to let the dough rest for eight hours or something and thereby miss my target time for finishing the recipe. But everything I’ve made from her has been amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/11 "2018-10-26T12:18:44Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Rose Levy Beranbaum has a [variation on this idea](https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/the-best-all-american-apple-piev) That link doesn’t work and I searched the site for apple pie and no results were returned. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/12 "2018-10-26T22:45:44Z")
[Extra letter in the link-fixed.](https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/the-best-all-american-apple-pie) That looks mighty tasty. I have Beranbaum’s Cake Bible and it’s terrific. Her Bread Bible too. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/13 "2018-10-27T00:56:33Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > [Extra letter in the link-fixed.](https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/the-best-all-american-apple-pie) > That looks mighty tasty. I have Beranbaum’s Cake Bible and it’s terrific. Her Bread Bible too. Thanks–not sure what happened. Years ago I gave my pie-loving brother her **Pie and Pastry Bible** for his birthday. After a few months he gave it back to me, saying, this is crazy, just bake me some pies from it. Fair enough. ---
**Author:** ![Fundisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fundisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fundisi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/14 "2018-10-28T01:33:20Z")
A tarte tatin cooks the fruit with the sugar and butter together: > **[Quince tarte tatin recipe](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/quince_tarte_tatin_58667)** > > This tarte tatin uses quince, which comes from the same family as the apple and pear. It should not be eaten raw but has a wonderfully fragrant flavour once cooked. ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/15 "2018-10-28T02:11:39Z")
Thanks to all! 🙂 I’m going to try a combination of a lot of these ideas and also this: [http://karosyrup.com/Recipe/Apple\_Crumb\_Pie](http://karosyrup.com/Recipe/Apple_Crumb_Pie). I’ll know how it worked out in a couple of hours… ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/16 "2018-10-28T05:11:33Z")
Update: the pie came out great, yay! About 1/3-1/2 c of glucose syrup, 3T butter, 2T water dissolved in a large kettle and stirred. Added about 5 cups of thinly sliced apples, 1/4 t salt, 1 tsp mixed apple pie and berbere spice, 1 tsp vanilla. Cooked for a few minutes… piled into a partially cooked pie crust. Topped with toasted oatmeal and dotted with butter… baked at 355 degrees for 50 minutes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/17 "2018-10-28T19:05:45Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > . . . > berbere spice, > . . . Ooh, what a great idea!I must try that next time! ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-an-apple-pie-recipe-with-cooked-syrup/823482/18 "2018-10-28T23:22:02Z")
Needs a slice or two of sharp cheddar on the side. Relief for the sweetness.