Deep Dish Candy Apple Crisp

I haven't had a red candy apple like you get at the fair in years, but I've been told that they don't have the cinnamon flavoring in them that they once had when I was growing up.
But, if you're like me--and you remember and love those cinnamon-y fair apples on a stick--
or, if you like the taste of sweetness and cinnamon--
I have a treat for you today. . . .

courtesy of my Grandmother Magers. . . .

Years ago she jotted down the following recipe on the inside cover
of her White House Cookbook.

I think I've told you before that
Grandmother never measured anything, unless it was absolutely necessary.
She just added here and there until it looked right.
And, she rarely wrote down a recipe.
If she did, it read something like this one:

"apple pie 
apples
lemon juice
sugar
red hots
butter
1/2 c brwn sug
oats
cinnamon
flour"

Got it?
Or, would you like a translation?
I wrote it out--with directions--
when I was a teenager, learning to cook--

Deep Dish Candy Apple Crisp
In a large bowl, combine
6 cups apples, cored and sliced,
1 tablespoon lemon juice, 
3 tablespoons sugar,
1/2-2/3 cup red hots.
 Stir and set aside.

In another bowl, combine
3 tablespoons melted butter &
1/2 cup brown sugar.
Then add
1/4 cup flour,
3/4-1 cup rolled oats,
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon.
Mixture should be crumbly.

In the first bowl add 1 tablespoon flour to apple mix.
Pour into a deep dish Pyrex--
top with 2 tablespoons melted butter.
 
Sprinkle the oat mixture evenly over the top.
Bake at 350 degrees until apples are done and the liquid has thickened--
Grandmother lightly covered the pie with foil for about 20-30 minutes,
then uncovered it the remainder of the time--
to be sure the apples cooked quickly
and the topping didn't brown too fast.

Delicious hot or cold--
With or without whipped cream or ice cream. . .

Every year, this was the first pie made with apples from Grandmother's trees. It was as sure a sign that fall was here as the leaves turning red and gold and the days becoming cooler. When our own tree produced it's first apples this year, I got out Grandmother's recipe and whipped up her special dessert. It was as delicious as I remembered. . . . I knew for sure. . . . . It Must Be Fall . . . . .

Hope you'll enjoy Grandmother's Deep Dish Candy Apple Crisp. . . .

It's the next best thing to a red candy apple on a stick. . .

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