Marions Best Ever Apple Pie
Recipe
- Title:
- Marions Best Ever Apple Pie
- Categories:
- Pies, Desserts
- Yield:
- 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 x -pastry-
- 2 c All purpose flour
- 3 oz Ea cold butter and cold lard
- 5 tb Ice cold water
- 1 x filling-
- 5 ea Large tart apples (spy)
- 1 ts Ground cinnimon
- 1/2 c Brown sugar
- 2 tb Lemon juice
- 1 ts Heaping of bread crumbs
- 1 x egg wash
- 1 ea Egg yolk
- 2 tb Milk
Directions
- To make pastry, cut butter and lard into flour with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Scatter water on mixture, mixing with fork until dough forms a ball.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and chill about 30 minutes.
- Divide into 2 balls.
- Roll out one portion to fit a 9 inch pie pan, leaving 1 inch of pastry at edge.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Core, peel and thinly slice apples.
- Toss with cinnamon, sugar and lemon juice in a bowl.
- Sprinkle heaping teaspoon flour or bread crumbs evenly over pie shell.
- Arrange apples slices on top, leaving as little space between slices as possible.
- Pile slices high but do not mound in centre.
- Roll out other half of dough to fit top of pie.
- Brush edge of bottom crust with egg wash made by blending beaten egg yolk with milk.
- Place top layer of dough on pie.
- Tuck top layer under bottom layer of dough around edge of pie.
- Crimp edges with fingers to form fluting.
- Prick pie with fork in at least a dozen places to let steam escape.
- Brush with eggwash.
- Bake 15 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 400 degrees F and bake 15 minutes, then reduce to 325 degrees F and bake 20 minutes more, or until crust is golden brown.
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