Apple Pie
A dessert that starts with golden delicious apples and finishes with lemon juice. On the table in about 45 minutes.
contains glutencontains dairycontains eggs
Ingredients
US
Metric
- 2 lb golden delicious apples (4-5)
- ½ oz lemon juice (1 tbsp)
- 1¾ oz white sugar
- 2⅓ oz brown sugar
- 5 g (1 tsp) cinnamon
- 1-2 g nutmeg
- ½ oz cornstarch
- ½ oz ice water
- 8 oz cold butter (2 sticks; cut into slices)
- 12⅓ oz flour
- 5 g salt
- 1 oz white sugar
- 7⅞ oz butter
- 50-100 ml ice water
- 1 egg (optional)
- ½ oz water (optional)
Make it lactose-friendly
- 226 g (2 sticks) cold butter, cut into slices → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
- 225 g butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
Steps
- Peel and cut the apples into 1-2 inch strips
- Put the apples in a bowl and mix in the lemon juice, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cornstarch and let it sit for 15 mins to release water
- Transfer the filling mixture to a sauce pan and reduce the liquid over medium to low heat for around 15 mins, stirring regularly, then turn off the gas
- While the filling is sitting / reducing, start the crust by putting the flour, salt, sugar, and pieces of butter in a food processor
- Run the food processor until it resembles a coarse sand (5-10 seconds) then start dripping in the ice water until the mixture starts to chunk together
- You'll know when it's done if you can pinch the dough with your hand and it sticks together
- Preheat oven to 350°F then start making the pie crust
- Cut the dough in half and roll both halves out with a rolling pin until they are big enough to cover your pie pan (around 9 inch diameter)
- Put the bottom half dough into the pie pan and cut off the excess dough with a knife
- Dump the sauce pan full of the filling into the pie pan and even it out
- Cover the pie filling with the top dough and fold over and tuck in the excess crust
- Use a fork or your fingers to pinch down the top crust to the bottom crust so you don't have air gaps
- Optionally you can now brush on the egg wash to make the crust get a shiny golden brown color when it cooks
- Cut a few slits in the top crust with a knife to give it a nice design and allow for air to release
- Bake 45 minutes at 350°F or until the crust is brown to your liking and the apples are bubbling inside
This is a variation — based.cooking edition. Base recipe: Apple Pie →
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Edition
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based.cooking
Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
| Calories | 710 |
|---|---|
| Protein | 6.1 g |
| Fat | 47.0 g |
| Carbs | 69.4 g |
| Fiber | 4.3 g |
| Sodium | 262 mg |
Source
based.cooking (community recipes, public domain) — unlicense