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- Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,rec.food.recipes
- From: japlady@nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
- Subject: Apple Pie
- Message-ID: <199412062016.AA133095015@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 20:17:00 GMT
-
- apple pie
- One 9-inch pie, 6 to 8 servings
- Preparation time: 45 minutes
- Standing time: 1 hour
- Baking time: 1 hour
- Chilling time: 1 hour
-
- Pie Crust
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup each: cold unsalted butter, vegetable shortening
- 1/4 teaspoon grated orange rind
- 2 to 3 teaspoons each: very cold orange juice, ice water
- Crumb topping
- 1/3 cup each: all-purpose flour, packed dark brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Dash each: salt, ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter
- Filling
- 7 to 8 medium Granny Smith apples
- 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon each: ground cinnamon, orange rind, vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Dash salt
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 egg, beaten
-
- 1. For pie crust, sift flour and salt into large bowl. Cut in butter and
- shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add orange rind. Sprinkle
- in juice and water,. 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing with fork until flour
- is moistened and soft dough forms. Shape into ball. Refrigerate, covered, 1
- hour.
-
- 2. For crumb topping, mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and ginger.
- Work in butter with fingers until mixture is crumbly.
-
- 3. For filling, peel core and cut apples into 1/2-inch slices. Put slices
- in large bowl; toss with 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons flour. Add sugar, cinnamon,
- orange rind, vanilla extract, nutmeg and salt. Stir in honey; let stand 1
- hour.
-
- 4. Heat oven to 450 degrees. Roll half of dough into a circle; fit in
- metal, 9-inch pie pan. Trim edge. Drain liquid from apples, reserve. Set
- 1/4 cup of the crumb topping aside. Layer apples with remaining crumbs in
- dough-lined pan. Use crumbs like mortar to build fruit up. Dot apples with
- 1 1/2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle with 5 tablespoons reserved apple
- liquid.
-
- 5. Roll out remaining dough; cut with knife or fluted pastry wheel into
- 1/2-inch-wide strips. Weave strips into lattice over fruit. Seal strips at
- edge of pan, moistening with apple liquid. Flute edge. Sprinkle reserved
- crumbs in holes of lattice. Brush only crust edge and strips with beaten
- egg.
-
- 6. Bake on foil-lined baking sheet at 450 degrees, 5 minutes. Reduce oven
- temperature to 350 degrees; bake until apples are tender, 50 to 55 more
- minutes (or only 40 minutes if you like crunchier apples). Cool on wire
- rack to room temperature.
-
- NOTE: Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream flavored with vanilla
- sugar and orange-flavored liqueur.
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