Title: Steel Trolley Diner's Fresh Apple Crumb Pie
Categories: Pies, Pastry, Desserts, Fruits
Yield: 6 Servings
4 1/2 c Apples; peel, core, slice
1 c Sugar
4 tb Flour
1 ts Cinnamon
1/4 ts Nutmeg
1/8 ts Salt
1 9" 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 topping.
To make topping, mix 1/4 lb. butter, 1 c. flour and 3/4 c.
sugar until crumbly. Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes to 1
hour or until done.
Recipe By: "Ohio's Perfect Pies, Ohio Magazine, September
1998
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 3:30 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 you're doing, you won't be successful
at it." The duo sells such tasty varieties as apple raisin
and the house specialty, oatmeal for $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 recipe since, well, as long as they can
remember.
Steel Trolley Diner, 140 E. Lincoln Way, Lisbon, OH,
330/424-FOOD
