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Steal This Famous Tennessee Café's Bacon Technique For Mouthwatering Apple Pie By Erica Martinez Nov. 9, 2025 2:20 pm EST

There are dozens of variations on the classic apple pie, but for the most part, a standard recipe calls for apples, sugar, cinnamon, some flour, and butter that's all tucked away and baked in a pastry crust. Of course, this American favorite has been jazzed up over time to include things like bourbon, salted caramel, and crumble toppings, but leave it to a Southern city to altogether replace the top crust of an apple pie with bacon. And we're not talking little crumbled bits of bacon , but full slices of the breakfast meat, interlaced and latticed to make a pretty-looking top, and baked right along with the pie so that it turns out browned and

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