Apple Pie Crust
Ingredients- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 cup milk
Steps:
- Cut butter into 1-inch slabs
- Freeze butter into freezer
- Mix flour, sugar, and salt into a mixing bowl
- Mix in butter
- Transfer the mixture onto a flat surface
- Flatten mixture with a rolling pin
- Put mixture back into bowl
- Add milk
- Knead dough into a ball
- Freeze dough in freezer
Apple Pie Filling
Ingredients:- 2 lbs of Granny Smith, Fuji, Gala, Red Delicious apples
- 1 lemon
- 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- Peel and cut apples in 1⁄4 inch thick slices
- In a bowl, combine apples, lemon juice, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt and allow to macerate for at least 30 minutes
- Pre-heat oven to 425°F
- Remove pie dough from freezer
- Cut pie dough into two
- Cover surface and rolling pin with flour
- Flatten each pie dough to 1⁄8-inch thick pie crust with rolling pin
- Line pie dish with flattened pie dough
- Transfer apple and macerated juice to a colander and collect the juice in a separate bowl
- Transfer juice and butter into small saucepan and boil until liquid starts to caramelize
- Transfer apples into pie dish
- Pour caramelized juice over apples
- Cover apple pie with remaining pie crust and seal
- Poke holes into pie crust
- Beat egg
- Brush egg over pie crust
- Heat apple pie in oven for 1 hour
Notes:
- Apples must be thinly sliced
- Put foil to cover pie when re-heating the pie
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