Oct 8, 2020

Ultimate Apple Pie

This is the only apple pie recipe you need.

With autumn now in full swing, pretty much all I can think about are apples, pumpkin, and spices. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. It's comfort food season, and this is where it starts.

This recipe was made in a 8" x 1.5" pie tin.

Ingredients

Dough

170gr butter

340gr plain flour

1 1/2 tbsp sugar

6-10 tbsp water

1 egg (for egg wash)

Apple Mixture

1kg 200gr green apples

50gr butter

50gr brown sugar

50gr white sugar

Zest of one small lemon

1 tspn cinnamon

1/4 tspn nutmeg

1/4 tspn ground cloves

1 1/2 tbsp cornflour

1/4 cup water

Method

Dough

1. Cut butter into cubes - make sure the butter is just out of the fridge. Add the flour and sugar, and crumb the butter and flour together. Do so until the mixture looks more or less like fine breadcrumbs.

2. Start adding the water a few tablespoons at a time, and knead the dough. Cover in plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge until you work on the apple mixture.

Apple Mixture

1. Peel the apples and cut around the core. Slice the apples thinly. It will look like a lot of apples - it's not. They will lose more than half their weight in the cooking and baking process.

2. In a large pot, melt the butter. Add the apples and stir to avoid burning. Add in sugars, lemon zest, and spices. Stir and let sit for 2-5 minutes. The apples will start to release a lot of liquid.

3. In a cup, stir the cornflour in the water until the cornflour dissolves. Do not add the cornflour straight into the pot or it will clump. Add the cornflour mixture to the pot and stir. Let sit on a low flame until the juice thickens. Allow to cool slightly.

Assembly

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.

2. Grease and line a pie tin. Roll out the dough until around 3-5mm thick and lay in tin, pressing the sides down. Trim the edges slightly, leaving enough dough hanging so that the dough at the sides does not sink into the pie tin.

3. Fill the tin with the apple mixture.

4. Roll out the rest of the dough and cover - this recipe will give you enough dough to either cover the top completely, or create a lattice (as below).