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Apple Pie

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8 Reviews

Total Time
1h
Prep Time
30m
Bake Time
30m
Serves 8
Serves 8
easy
Easy

How to make apple pie

We have the best apple pie recipe that will ensure your meal ends with a bang. I mean what even is Sunday dinner without a bowl of apple pie and custard for pudding.

Whether its your first one and you are wondering should I cook apples before making pie? Or you are an old hand at whipping pies out for every occasion you will want to give this recipe a try. The dreamiest apple pie filling encased with beautiful homemade pastry. 

The smell of this pie baking is enough to have the whole family crowding around the oven in anticipation.

9 ingredients6 steps

    Method

    1. Step 1

      Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the cold water to the flour mixture. Initially use a knife and mix the water into the flour. Then use your hands to form a dough.

    2. Step 2

      When the dough is even and smooth cut off a third and set side for the pie top. Roll out the remaining pastry to cover the base of a 20cm pie dish. Then carefully line the dish with the rolled out pastry. Using the edge of the plate as a guide, trim the excess pastry and set aside with the pie top pastry.

    3. Step 3

      Blind bake the pie in a preheated oven at 190°C (170°C fan, gas mark 5) for 10-15 minutes.

    4. Step 4

      Quarter, core, peel and slice the apples about 5mm thick and add them to a large pan with the sugar, cinnamon and flour, mix together briefly to coat the apple and heat to soften then.

    5. Step 5

      Roll out the remaining pastry that was set aside to create the pie top and slice into strips to create a lattice effect on top of the pie. Once the base has been blind baked, fill with the softened apples and then moisten the pastry around the edge of the pie dish and carefully lay thelattice  pie top over the top. Press down the pastry edges to seal.

       

    6. Step 6

      Brush the top of the pie with the egg white and sprinkle with golden caster sugar. Bake for about 20 minutes until golden. For the best results allow to cool for 5 minutes before serving.

    Ingredients

    • For the pastry

      • 250gAllinson's Plain White Flour 
      • 1pinchSalt 
      • 125gButter (unsalted) (chilled) 
      • 5 tbspWater 
    • For the filling

      • 1kgBramley apple(s) (large) 
      • 0.5 tspCinnamon (ground) 
      • 3 tbspAllinson's Plain White Flour 
      • 140gUnrefined golden caster sugar (a little extra for sprinkling) 
      • 1Egg(s) (free range) 

    8 Baker Ratings

    Two points I bake for a lactose intolerant friend, do I stick with the same amount of block marg as butter.
    Blind bake the pie! Surely that would leave it difficult to attach a top? Seems good otherwise.

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