Apple Pie - American Recipe
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Ingredients: 1 batch pie pastry, see recipe in this book
6-8 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
1⅓ cups sugar
⅓ cup arrowroot
pinch of salt
cinnamon, to taste
6-8 Tbsp butter
Optional Possibilites
½ tsp vanilla
⅛ tsp cloves
⅛ tsp nutmeg
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Directions:In a soup pot, toss the apples with the sugar and dry ingredients, cook over medium-low heat until the apples create their own liquid and the sugar and arrowroot become a sauce. You can add any other ingredients at this point. Be sure to stir the mixture to ensure the arrowroot becomes smooth and not clumpy little dumplings. While the apples cook, roll out half of the pastry to your desired thickness and line a pie plate. When ready, carefully spoon the apple mixture into the pastry. Dot the apples with butter.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF. Roll out the second half of the pastry and lay it over the apples. Cut the pastry to fit the pie, by using a butter knife to cut around the outer edge of the plate. Seal the edges and make slices in the top or create a design if you prefer. Just before baking, brush the top of the pie with milk and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake in the centre of the oven for about 40-50 minutes or until the crust is golden and the pie bubbly. You may wish to place a tray under the pie plate in case it bubbles over while baking. Also, if you find the pastry is browning too quick, cover the pie with a bit of aluminium foil. When the pie is done, remove from the oven and cool on a rack until ready to serve. |
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Notes: My Grandma always had apple pies made up and frozen. In this way, she could easily bake a pie when guests would arrive unexpected. The pies were always thin, in a shallow tin and came out of the freezer wrapped in a layer of waxed paper followed by a layer of foil and finally enclosed in a plastic bag. Her method worked, many of us never knew she hadn't slaved over a pie before our arrival! When Grandpa was still alive, they'd work together - he'd peel, core and slice the apples while Grandma made the pastry and rolled the dough for each pie. Somehow, I acquired Grandpa's small, red, timber-handled corer-peeler which I love using to prepare the apples when I bake an apple pie.
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