Pie Recipe #37 - Topsy-turvy Apple Pie

This will turn your world upside down...well...the pie anyway. Take a traditional apple pie, add a portion of a pecan pie, bake, flip, and VOILA!! Ingredients: 2 (9 inch)pie shells, 1/4 cup butter, softened, 1/2 cup pecan halves, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 5 large apples-peeled, cored and thinly sliced, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, a pinch of salt. Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spread butter or margarine evenly on bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Press pecans, rounded side down, into butter layer. Pat brown sugar evenly over nuts. Lay one pastry shell over brown sugar layer. Place apples in a large bowl and sprinkle with lemon juice. In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; mix well. Toss mixture with apples, coatinig thoroughly. Spread apples into pie plate. Cover apples with second pastry shell. Crimp edges of pastry and make steam vents in top. Bake in preheated 400 degree oven for 50 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced with a fork. Remove to cooling rack for 5 minutes before inverting onto serving plate. Carefully remove pie pan. Serve warm or cool. Submitted by louc4 on allrecipes.com. "As easy as pie!"