apple pie

[Water Badger 26]

Any good apple pie recipies ?

 

realy fancy a try at making one

[Tomm Parr 30]

Any good apple pie recipies ?

 

realy fancy a try at making one

 

Here is one.

I don't bother with measures or times: I like a haphazard kitchen (?!)

 

= chopped apples in a pan with a big nob of butter, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 cup sultanas (optional)

= sweat them until the chunks get a bit squidgy. turn them off the heat.

= make pastry in big bowl: flour, butter/marge, sugar, cardamom seeds. (more flour if too wet, more marge if too dry).

= halve the pastry and roll it into a big circle.

= Pop it in a greased tin as the pie base. Make sure it's big enough to come just over the sides of the tin.

= blind bake it until it is crisp (gas 5-6)

= Roll the rest of the pastry to use a lid.

= Pour in the apple mixture. Put on the lid, pinch sides to seal. cut off waste and use to make pretty pattern on the lid!

= sprinkle some sugar atop the lid (maybe brush with egg yolk too)

= bake it in the oven (gas 5-6) till the lid is crisp.

 

Serve it with homemade custard yum yum

 

If you feel lazy, don't bother blind baking the pie base - the base'll be softer after cooking rather than crispy.

You can add some black cardamom seeds (crack open the pods) to the pastry if you want.

YOu can add sultanas or blackberries to the apples in the pan if you want to, as well.

In fact, this general idea works the same for most fruit pies.

[Water Badger 26]

thanks tom will be on the search for my ingredience later

[Keeps 403]

not the best recipe for diets, but I caramelise the applies rather than boiling them - fry apple slices in butter but not for too long (you don't want them to go to mush as the caramel will continue to cook them), then add brown sugar and stir, continue to cook for a few minutes until the sugar has melted and is bubbling. Then make your pie using this filling (use shortcrust pastry). Egg wash the top of the pie and sprinkle on more brown sugar for a nice crispy top.

 

Just to add there's no need to blind bake pies at all, if you cook it for long enough in a not too hot oven (so it doesnt burn) the pie will not be soggy at all, but nice and crisp.

 

Makes the must scrumptious (though very calorific)apple pie

[the_stig 6,614]

pastry apple oven serve ---

[Water Badger 26]

not the best recipe for diets, but I caramelise the applies rather than boiling them - fry apple slices in butter but not for too long (you don't want them to go to mush as the caramel will continue to cook them), then add brown sugar and stir, continue to cook for a few minutes until the sugar has melted and is bubbling. Then make your pie using this filling (use shortcrust pastry). Egg wash the top of the pie and sprinkle on more brown sugar for a nice crispy top.

 

Just to add there's no need to blind bake pies at all, if you cook it for long enough in a not too hot oven (so it doesnt burn) the pie will not be soggy at all, but nice and crisp.

 

Makes the must scrumptious (though very calorific)apple pie

 

All the more excuse to hunt all week long to burn off the fat

[Water Badger 26]

did it last week but here is the proof

[Tomm Parr 30]

did it last week but here is the proof

 

 

Good stuff! did you make your own custard too? Homemade stuff is a treat indeed

[Keeps 403]

Was there any left? never is in our house

[Water Badger 26]

Was there any left? never is in our house

NO just made another we are all wadling around groaning