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(Peter Werner) wrote in
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I have a surplus of apples and want to make several apple crisps
- baked sweetened apples with a crumb topping made with butter,
sugar, flour, and oatmeal. Something along these lines:

http://pie.allrecipes.com/az/AppleCrispIV.asp

albeit with a little bit of tapioca added so that the juice
exuded by the apples thickens.

The question I have concerns freezing them - I want to freeze
several of the crisps for later enjoyment. Is there any problem
with baking them, freezing them after they've cooled, then using
a microwave to thaw them later? Should I freeze them partially
baked or unbaked and bake them when I'm ready to unfreeze them?

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

Peter


Unbaked, then add as much as 50% baking time when baking from
frozen state. They'll taste like fresh-made.

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Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

Have you ever frozen a fresh apple? When thawed, it turns to mush.
'course, I've never baked one from the frozen state.
I'd say bake a crisp and test-freeze one piece to see how well it
thaws. jmho,
Peggy

Freezing an apple and thawing it is entirely different than freezing
a prepared pie to be baked from the frozen state. When I can get
good Fall apples, I assemble 10-12 apple pies (exactly the same as if
I were going to bake them immediately) and freeze, then wrap tightly
in several layers of plastic wrap. They go directly from the freezer
to the oven and bake at 375°F for around 90 minutes or until done.
They taste like freshly-made, freshly-baked pies.

I've never tried this with a crisp, since I don't make those, but I
imagine the results would be similar.

I don't know if the OP was posting from the UK or the US, but in the
US there are all kinds of commercially frozen fruit pies that are
oven-ready. They're prepared the same way I prepare mine, but mine
are better.

Today I'm baking a blackberry pie that was prepared the same way
earlier in the summer.

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Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

You're right. I forgot about prepared pies you can purchase (or make,
as in your case) already frozen and just pop in the oven.
And I just realized that a crisp is nothing more than a crustless
French Apple Pie.
~Peggy

Peggy, the reason I do them unbaked is that reheating or rebaking a pie
that was first baked and then frozen just doesn't taste as fresh. Guess
I'm going to have to try a crisp! g

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Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.