FRIED APPLE PIES from an IRON SKILLET - How to make FRIED APPLE PIES Recipe

Old Fashioned Fried Apple Pies from a Cast Iron skillet...just like the ones Grandma makes!! I'm sharing this recipe from memory by watching both my Grandmothers make these while I was growing up. If you love Apple Pie...this will not disappoint!! Click on "Show more" before for recipe...

OLD FASHIONED FRIED APPLE PIES from a IRON SKILLET:

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon water
• 4-5 cups apples peels, seeded & cubed

Cook apples, sugar, cinnamon, butter and water together in a large non-stick skillet, over medium-heat, for 15 minutes. Stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Cool completely.

PIE DOUGH:

• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 1/4 cups self-rising flour
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup all-vegetable shortening

1. In a medium mixing bowl add flour. Cut shortening into flour with a fork or a pastry tool.
2. With fork, beat egg into buttermilk.
3. Make a well in the center of flour mixture. Add buttermilk mixture. Using fork...pull dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until blended.
4. Make dough into a large ball...place onto lightly floured surface. Cut dough into 4 equal parts. Cut each quart in half making 8 pieces of dough.
5. Roll each of the eight pieces of dough into 6" circles.
6. Add about 2 tablespoons of cooled apple filling onto each dough circle. Fold dough over apple filling to look like a half moon shape. Lightly dampen edge of inside dough with water to help ends seal. Use fork to seal edges together.
7. In a 12" cast iron skillet...add 3/4 cups vegetable/canola oil. Heat over medium-low heat. Add only two pie at a time to hot oil. Cook 2 minutes on each side or until golden. Drain on cooling racks. Sprinkle with sugar & cinnamon mixture (1 teaspoons cinnamon & 4 teaspoons sugar) immediately after removing pies from oil.

Makes 8 Fried Apple Pies

How to make SELF-RISING FLOUR...:

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup all-purpose flour

Whisk together.