Steel Trolley Diner’s Fresh Apple Crumb Pie

Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie

Recipe By : "Ohio's Perfect Pies," Ohio Magazine, September 1998

8 Preparation Time :

Categories : Pies

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -- -- --

4 1/2 cups apples -- sliced

1 cup sugar

4 tablespoons flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 9-inch pie shell -- unbaked

Mix flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Put apples in large bowl and pour

flour mixture over it. Stir well. Put into shell and cover with crumb

1/4 lb. butter,

1 c. flour and 3/4 c.

350 degrees for 45 minutes to

1 hour or until done.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NOTES : The Steel Trolley fixed old-fashioned pies with fresh fruits and handmade dough and serves them 24 hours a day. Co-owners Earle and Jacki Hersman enlisted Earle's 78-year-old mother, Dorothy Sutherin, to

make the from-scratch dough at home and bring it in each morning. Sutherin's pie teammate, 71-year-old Hazel Allison, reports to the

50s-style diner at

30 am to make the filling and bake the pies. "I

love it," says Allison of her job, which she works on a volunteer

basis. "If you don't enjoy what your're doning, you won't be successful

at it." The duo sells such tasty varieties as apple raisin and the

1.60 a slice. Sutherin and Allison not

only make their pies from scratch, they make them from memory; the

bakers haven't looked at a riecie since, well, as long as they can

remember. Steel Trolley Diner, 140 E. Linclon Way, Lisbon, OH,

330/424-FOOD