Apple Crisp

It's Thursday, and we're still posting recipes from things we made this last weekend :) This time it's a pretty simple one, an apple crisp recipe from Epicurious. This turned out pretty well, but the caramel sauce got a little too dark, and one of us would have preferred the apples being peeled (you can peel them or not, according to your taste).

Ingredients

• About 2.5-3 lbs (1.15-1.4 kg) of nice crisp, tart apples, sliced thinly.
• 1/2 cup + 10 tbsp sugar
• 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp ground allspice
• 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 3/4 sticks of butter (yup, that's right!)
• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

Directions

1. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together flour, 10 tbsp sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg.
2. Cut 10 tbsp of butter into small pieces, and cut into dry ingredients either with fingers or a pastry cutter.
3. Set topping aside.
4. Preheat oven to 375 F (190 C).
5. Stir sugar and butter together in a large skillet over medium heat until both melt and form a more-or-less smooth sauce.
6. Add lemon juice and cook, stirring constantly, until caramel sauce is medium-brown, around 5 minutes.
7. Toss in apple slices and toss until slices are well-coated.
8. Scrape the apples and caramel sauce into your baking dish(es) and spread them out evenly.
9. Sprinkle the topping over each dish.
10. Bake until apples are tender, the sauce is nice and bubbly, and the topping is lightly browned - about 40-50 minutes.
11. Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving.