apple crisp

So, I have found the perfect apple crisp recipe! My favorite apple crisp for years has only been a distant memory. A memory, of all things, the apple crisp served with hot lunch at school when I was a kid. It had a perfect crispy, sugary topping atop the succulent apples.  My perfect apple crisp does not have any of those blasphemous oats in it.  I know many people love an apple crisp with an oatmeal topping and it can make a good apple crisp, but not a divine one. So, my search went on for years….

Imagine my delight when my friend, Paige, came to a gathering armed with her fabulous apple crisp. She’d had a little run in about apple crisp with her mother earlier in the day. She’d told her mom she was going to try an apple crisp recipe by Paula Deen made with oatmeal.  Her mother, wise as she is, told her “Why would you want to make Paula Deen’s recipe when our family makes the best apple crisp?” Paige succumbed to her mother’s wisdom and made the best apple crisp ever, to my ever grateful delight.  I have doubled her recipe, because one 9×9 pan is just not enough. Also, Paige’s mother says you must slice the apples very thin so they cook really well. Obey her.