Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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 650      grams         tart apples
 300      grams         sugar
  25      grams         flour
 750      milliliter    sour cream
   2                    eggs -- beaten
   5      milliliter    vanilla
   2                    deep-dish pastry shells, 23 cm wide
 215      grams         sugar
  75      grams         flour
   7 1/2  milliliter    cinnamon
 120      grams         butter

Preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 øC . In a large bowl, combine the sugar, flour, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla into a smooth mixture. 2. Core, peel, and chop the apples. Boil them in a small amount of water with a little lemon juice for 3 to 5 minutes until they begin to get tender. 3. Drain apples and add to the mixture. 4. Pour into two 23-cm pastry shells. 5. Bake at 200 øC for 30 minutes. 6. While pies are baking, crumble topping ingredients into a bowl and mix with a pastry cutter or two knives. 7. Remove pies from oven and cover with topping recipe. 8. Put pies under broiler for 1 to 2 minutes until the topping begins to bubble. Author's Notes: This recipe came from my wife's boss, Dick Dolan, the editor of the Hewlett Packard Journal. It is sinfully delicious and never lasts very long, even if you don't have help eating it! Don't take your eyes off the pies while they're under the broiler. A moment's inattention can mean burned pie! If there is any pie left over, the remainder should be refrigerated. Difficulty : moderate. Precision : measure the