Pie Recipes
Recipes and Tips for making Pie.
Apple Pie From Scratch
People with a passion for pie crust will appreciate this double-crust delight: Flaky layers of dough encase a sweet, sticky apple filling.
Ingredients:
Pastry:
- 2 ½ cup(s) all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon(s) salt
- 10 tablespoon(s) cold butter or margarine, cut up
- 6 tablespoon(s) vegetable shortening
- 6 ½ tablespoon(s) ice water
Apple Filling:
- 2/3 cup(s) sugar
- 1/3 cup(s) cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon(s) nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon(s) salt
- 3 ½ pound(s) Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, or Braeburn apples, each peeled, cored, and cut into 16 wedges
- 1 tablespoon(s) fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon(s) butter or margarine, cut up
- 1 large egg white, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon(s) sugar
Preparation:
- To prepare pastry: In food processor with knife blade attached, blend flour and salt. Add butter and shortening, and pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle in ice water, 1 tablespoon at a time, pulsing after each addition, until large moist crumbs just begin to form.
- Shape dough into 2 balls, 1 slightly larger. Flatten each into a disk; wrap each in plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes or overnight. (If chilled overnight, let stand 30 minutes at room temperature before rolling.)
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place cookie sheet on rack in lower third of preheating oven to bake pie on later. To prepare apple filling: In large bowl, combine sugar with cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add apples and lemon juice, and toss to coat evenly.
- On lightly floured surface, with floured rolling pin, roll larger disk of dough into 12-inch round. Ease dough into 9 ½ -inch deep-dish glass or ceramic pie plate. Gently press dough against bottom and up side of plate without stretching. Trim dough edge, leaving 1-inch overhang; reserve trimmings. Spoon apple mixture into pie crust; dot with butter.
- Roll remaining disk for top crust into 12-inch round. Center round over filling in bottom crust. Trim pastry edge, leaving 1-inch overhang; reserve trimmings. Fold overhang under; bring up over pie-plate rim and pinch to form stand-up edge, then make decorative edge. Brush crust with some egg white. Reroll trimmings. With knife or cookie cutters, cut out apple and/or leaf shapes; arrange on pie. Cut short slashes in round to allow steam to escape during baking. Brush cutouts with egg white, then sprinkle crust and cutouts with sugar.
- Bake pie 1 hour 10 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced with knife through slits in crust. To prevent over-browning, cover pie loosely with tent of foil after 40 minutes. Cool pie on wire rack 3 hours to serve warm. Or cool completely to serve later.
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