Apple Streusel Mince Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 9 in. unbaked pastry shell
3 all-purpose apples, peeled and thinly sliced
1/2 cup unsifted flour, plus
3 tablespoons unsifted flour
2 tablespoons margarine or 2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 (32 ounce) jar ready to use mincemeat (Regular or Brandy & Rum)
1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/3 cup cold butter or 1/3 cup margarine
1/4 cup chopped nuts (I use walnuts)

Preparation

In a large bowl, toss apples with 3 Tablespoons flour and the melted margarine; arrange in a pastry shell.
(To save time, you can use a frozen pastry shell, thawed).
Top apples with mincemeat.
In medium bowl, combine remaining 1/2 cup flour, sugar and cinnamon; cut in cold margarine until crumbly.
Add nuts; sprinkle over mincemeat.
Bake in lower half of 425* degree oven 10 minutes.
Reduce oven temperature to 375*; bake 25 minutes longer or until golden brown.
Cool.
Serve with whipping cream.
(Prior to removing your pie from the oven, insert a knife or fork to test the doneness of the apples- I made this pie for Thanksgiving and used 3 different apples, one of them did not cook up as fast as the other two and I had some\"crunchy\" bites- it was s).