The soft butter did not work for me in the crumb topping. Much better to use it harder to make the actual crumbly mix vs a smooth, almost cookie type of batter.

This recipe was great but I used the harder butter as well and it turned out wonderful!

Same issue with butter, I put all the topping ingredients into my food processor instead of mixing by hand and also added a bag of chopped walnuts....topping was awesome!!

What does "Dot with butter" mean?

I usually soften the apples by sauteeing them in a bit of butter before filling the pie shell. I brought this to my neighbor's on Thanksgiving, and now make it regularly for him as it falls into his low/no salt diet.

This was simple and straight forward and tasted devine! Loved it.

I thought it was a fairly simple recipe without to many complicated ingredients. As for the crumb topping, i added some oatmeal just for fun and it turned out great with nice crumbly texter. I would recommend trying it.