Almond-Streusel Peach Pie
- 2 cups flour, all-purpose
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 10 tablespoons butter chilled
- 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening chilled
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 cup almonds sliced
- 1 each lemon
- 9 each peaches about 3 pounds
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 tablespoons bread crumbs
- Combine 1 cup flour and 1/2 ts.
- salt.
- Cut in 4 tb.
- of butter and the shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal with a few pea-sized pieces remaining.
- Sprinkle in 3 to 4 tablespoons ice water, a tablespoon at a time, until dough just comes together.
- Gather into a disk.
- Wrap and chill at least 30 minutes.
- Combine remaining cup of flour, 13 cup brown sugar, 1/4 ts.
- salt, and 1/4 ts.
- nutmeg.
- Cut in remaining 6 tb.
- of butter until crumbly.
- Stir in almonds.
- Chill.
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out chilled pie pastry to fit a 9" pie pan.
- Fit pastry into pan.
- Trim and flute edges.
- Chill.
- Heat oven to 475.
- Grate 1 ts.
- of lemon zest from the lemon and squeeze 1 tb.
- of juice.
- Peel peaches and slice.
- Combine with remaining 23 cup brown sugar, remaining 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg, lemon zest and juice, cornstarch and almond extract.
- Sprinkle bread crumbs over bottom of pie shell and fill with peach mixture.
- Sprinkle almond crumb mixture on top.
- Bake 15 minutes.
- Reduce temperature to 350F (180C).
- Continue baking until top is browned and fruit juices are bubbling, 50 to 55 minutes.
- Cool completely before cutting.
flour, salt, butter, vegetable shortening, brown sugar, nutmeg, almonds, lemon, peaches, cornstarch, almond extract, bread crumbs
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/almond-streusel-peach-pie-2928 (may not work)