Peach Pie with Almond Crumble Topping
- 1 each pastry dough sweet, 1 crust pie
- 1 cup flour, all-purpose
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg freshly grated
- 1/2 cup almonds sliced
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
- 3 pounds peaches firm ripe, yellow fleshed free stone
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons flour, all-purpose
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 18 teaspoon nutmeg freshly grated
- 2 tablespoons butter cold
- To make topping: Combine flour, sugar and nutmeg in a mixing bowl; stir well to mix and stir in sliced almonds.
- Stir in butter evenly.
- Set aside for 5 minutes, then, using your fingertips, break the mixture into 1/4 to 1/2-inch crumbs.
- Set aside again while you prepare the filling.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and set racks at middle level.
- Roll out bottom crust and arrange in 9-inch Pyrex plate.
- To make filling: Peel the peaches by cutting a cross in the blossom end of each and dropping them three at a time into a pan of boiling water.
- Remove after 20 or 30 seconds with a slotted spoon or skimmer and drop them into a bowl of ice water.
- If the peaches are ripe, the skin will slip off easily.
- If it does not, remove the skin with a sharp stainless steel paring knife.
- (If you peel it with a knife, include an extra peach for what you have peeled away.)
- Hold each peeled peach gently in your left hand over a mixing bowl (if you are left handed reverse.)
- With a stainless steel paring knife make a cut through to the pit, from stem to blossom end.
- Make another cut about 3/4 inch to the right of the first one along the outside of the peach.
- Angle the knife blade back so the cuts meet at the pit.
- Twist the knife blade upward slightly as a wedge of peach will fall into the bowl.
- Continue in the same manner around the peach, cutting it into 8 to 10 wedges.
- Discard the pit and repeat with remaining peaches.
- Add remaining ingredients, except the butter, to the peaches and stir gently with a rubber spatula to combine.
- Pour filling into the prepared pastry shell and smooth.
- Dot with the butter.
- Scatter the crumb topping evenly over the filling.
- Place pie on the bottom rack of the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- Lower the temperature to 350F (180C) and move pie to the middle rack.
- Bake another 30 minutes, or until the crust and crumble are a deep golden and the juices are just beginning to bubble up.
- Cool the pie on a rack and serve warm or room temperature.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/peach-pie-almond-crumble-toppin-6107 (may not work)