This is a recipe for an easy peach pie using canned peaches. Peach crumble pie combines peaches and a beautiful mixture of brown sugar, flour and oats for a topping that tops the pie and turns this into a culinary treat. If peach pie and peach cobbler got married, this would be their beautiful child. A classic Summer time pie with a Streusel crumble topping.
Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning we totaled over 12 inches of snow. Schools and businesses were closed, so what the heck, we called a family pow-wow and declared our household observe an official snow day.
Snow bound and mind clear of normal weekday responsibilities, one can find time to clean out an unruly closet, work on that cluttered basement, catch up on some household bill filing, dust… Forget that, let’s bake a peach pie.
Peach Pie Using Canned Peaches
Back in the dark ages (well.. ok … the 1960’s) my mom made a lot of peach pies. And living in the middle of Kansas, we didn’t have a steady stream of fresh peaches. Perhaps only available a few weeks in the Summer.
So she used canned peaches to make peach pies. Easy enough, just make sure the peaches are well drained.
Let’s start with the flour I’m going to use. When I was back in Kansas I picked up a sack of Hudson Cream Flour.
The flour mill is about 20 miles west of the wheat farm where I grew up, located in Hudson Kansas, population 125. It is one of the last independent flour mills left in the United States.
Hudson Cream Flour is made using a “short patent” milling process, a method that was much more common a century ago than today. The difference is that in short patent milling the wheat is ground more times and sifted with finer-meshed sieves than in standard milling. Also, the short patent process sifts away more by-product, leaving only the heart of the wheat kernel. The result is a flour that is smoother in texture and produces baked goods that are consistently light and fluffy.
Before we go any further, take a look at what my Mom gave me for Easter. Take a closer look and you’ll see her dress is real live authentic old-time Hudson Flour flour sack. Is that just “way” cool or what?
So using my homemade butter pie crust and that Kansas Short Patent flour, let’s get started.
Using my Le Creuset and it’s dough hook, I blended the ingredients. Removing the dough to my work space, I formed it into a ball, added a bit more flour and ice water to achieve just the right consistency, then rolled it out into a large round.
Carefully lay the dough into your pie plate then using a knife, trim the excess from around the edges. Using your thumb and forefinger, pinch edges to form a ripple design, poke bottom of dough a few times with a fork and you’re ready for your filling. Note, let the pie shell rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes before adding filling.
Add about 4 – 5 of peeled and sliced peaches per pie’
I topped the peaches with a crumb mixture.
Popped it into the an oven preheated to 375 degrees and baked for about 50 minutes, or until bubbly and the crumb topping had started to brown.
OK, so here’s the good news. My pie crust was beautiful. This is a recipe I learned while working in the pastry kitchen in Culinary School. A classic French method for pie dough using butter. The bad news is, if I plan to get obsessed with making pies, that means I’ll have to increase my gym time from 3 hours a week to 25 hours a week, which means I’ll have to quit my job. 🙂
That crumb topping almost makes it look more like a cobbler, doesn’t it?
Wait…wait…wait, I’m not done yet, we’ve got to talk about the “twisties”. When I was growing up on the farm, I swear my mom made a pie, if not two, every single day. With her practice of wasting nothing, here’s what she did with that extra dough that had been trimmed around the edge of the pie plate.
Roll it out, cut into strips, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, twist up the strips, place on a baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes. A tasty little treat.
Recipe for peach crumble pie using canned peaches
I hope you give this peach pie recipe a try. And if you do, please come back and let me know how you liked it and give the recipe a star rating. Your feedback is valuable to me for developing future recipes. And if you have a favorite peach streusel pie recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
Peach Crumble Pie with Hudson Cream Flour
Ingredients
- FOR THE FILLING
- 3 pounds peaches 8 cups, canned peaches, drained, or fresh, peeled and sliced
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons light-brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- FOR THE CRUMBLE:
- 1/3 cup packed light-brown sugar
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
- 1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter 3/4 stick, cut into small pieces
Instructions
- Mix pie crust ingredients together and form dough into a ball.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly flour a rolling pin and work surface and roll out dough to a 12-inch round. Place in a 9-inch pie plate, fold overhang under, and crimp edges.
- Make filling: In a large bowl, toss together peaches, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and flour until combined.
- Make crumble: In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, flour, and oats; using your hands, work in butter until large clumps form.
- Transfer peach filling to pie shell, then sprinkle crumble evenly over top. Place pie on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until juices are bubbling and topping is golden, 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack 1 1/2 hours before serving.
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