Apple Pie From Scratch

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Apple Pie From Scratch

INGREDIENTS
Pie Dough
2½ cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1½ sticks butter, cold and cut in cubes
4-8 tablespoons ice water

Filling
2½ pounds Granny Smith apples, cored and sliced
¾ cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
½ lemon
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon sugar
Vanilla ice cream

PREPARATION
Preheat the oven to 375°F/200°C.
In a medium-sized bowl, add the flour and salt. Mix with fork until combined.
Add in cubed butter and break up into flour with a fork. Mixture will still have lumps about the size of small peas.
Gradually add in ice water and continue to mix until the dough starts to come together. You may not need all of the water, but if the dough is too dry then add more. The dough should not be very tacky or sticky.
Work the dough together with your hands and turn out onto a surface. Work into a ball and cover with cling wrap. Refrigerate.
In a bowl, add the sliced apples, sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon.
Mix until combined and all apples are coated. Refrigerate.
On a floured surface, cut the pie dough in half and roll out both halves until round and about ⅛-inch thick.
Roll the dough around the rolling pin and unroll onto a pie dish making sure the dough reaches all edges. Trim extra if necessary.
Pour in apple filling mixture and pat down.
Roll the other half of the dough on top.
Trim the extra dough from the edges and pinch the edges to create a crimp. Make sure edges are sealed together.
Brush the pie with the beaten egg and sprinkle with the sigar.
Cut four slits in the top of the pie to create a vent.
Bake pie for 50-60 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and no greyish or undercooked pastry remains.
Allow to cool completely before slicing.
Top with ice cream and enjoy!

MUSIC
Soho Strut
Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc.

[imanec]

Everytime i think i got all the ingredients they have to add something totally awkeard and out of place just like unicorn blood or nutmeg

[xhenihysa]

This is my first pie ever made. After I put it in the oven I was kinda scared because it was easy to make. I thought that it wouldn’t come out good since everyone would make the pie preparation such a big deal. It came out perfect and I don’t even like apple pies. The crust was perfect. I cooked the filling in a medium heat pan with butter for 10 min (covered with a lid) and the apples were perfectly cooked and the juice was thick. I also used green apples, they usually are kind of harder. Another tip; when you split the crust when you take it off from the fridge, I’d suggest not to cut the pieces equally but the bottom one a little bigger, you have to open it a little more than the top one and it would be better if the bottom is thicker. Personal opinion. Thank you so much!!

[janemack]

This is very similar to my mom's pie, which I've been making for 40 years. Secret: use a mix of apples (different varieties). Then you can cut sugar to 1/4 cup (granny smiths are very tart, so you probably do need so much sugar with just them). Skip nutmeg, unless you like it. Add a few small pats of butter on top after filling the crust (before adding top crust). Don't listen to people who say you need to precook the apples. No. Don't do that. This is traditional and delicious.

[elodiecliff]

Here's what I do with the scraps of dough from forming the crust shape: Form them into strips of the same size, place them on a baking sheet, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top, bake at 350 for around 8 mins

[andreaenemegio]

I made this yesterday and it was awesome! The only thing I changed was that I didn't add nutmeg and also I added some butter on top of the filling before baking. Everyone liked it, even my mother in law 🥰

Edit: 10 months later, I sell these!

[Annie-pnjo]

Why does everyone complain so much in the comments?

[kwaisumlee]

PIE DOUGH

2 ½ cups flour (320 g)

1 teaspoon salt

¾ cup butter, 1 1/2 sticks, cold, cubed(170 g)

8 tablespoons ice water, or as needed

FILLING

2 ½ lb granny smith apple, cored, sliced, peeled (1 kg)

¾ cup sugar (150 g)

2 tablespoons flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

½ lemon

1 egg, beaten

1 tablespoon sugar

[ivblues]

Apple pie🥧:
- 310 grams of flour🍚
- 1 teaspoon of salt🧂
MIX🥣
- 170 grams of butter🧈
MIX🥣
- 4 - 8 tablespoons of water💧
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make a dough and put it in the fridge for one hour 🧊
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- 1.1kg apples🍏🍎
- 170g of white sugar🤍
- 2 tablespoons of flour🍚
- 1/2 teaspoon salt🧂
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon 🤎
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 🥜
- 1/2 lemon🍋
MIX🥣
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egg wash and 1 tablespoon of sugar on top 🥚🤍💛
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Bake: 200*C, 50 - 60 minutes.
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add ice cream/whipped cream/sugar at the end if u want🍦🍨!!

[chipslight]

How dare you make this recipe while skipping the most important step.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, everyone knows you must first invent the universe.

[tylernelson]

From Scratch? Oh no. Don't you see what you've done Tasty? Now people can't complain about how you use premade ingredients.

[audreyc]

I made and it was SO GOOD! Absolutely beautiful pie! Thanks!

[lordkitten]

I tried this and it came out great! Just a few tips:
1. The pie definitely needs to cool after baking. I refrigerated it overnight, but I'm sure it'd be fine after just a few hours too.
2. If you don't love sourness, mix in some red apples with the Granny Smith, and maybe decrease the amount of lemon.
3. After you season the apples, add ~1 tbsp cornstarch and put them in the fridge. After 30 mins, take them out and drain all the liquid into a small pot/pan. Heat the liquid, and add in ~1/4 stick of butter or margerine and a cornstarch slurry (~1.5 tbsp cornstarch, 3 tbsp water). The mixture will thicken, after which you should take it off the heat and pour it back over the apples. It's a short and easy process, but it makes a huge difference.
4. You can replace all the butter in the recipe with margerine if you'd prefer, and the pie will come out great anyway.

[breadcrumbs]

Don’t forget a tablespoon or so of apple cider vinegar in the dough! It makes for a flakier crust because it prevents gluten formation.

[sandydee]

I made this for Thanksgiving. I would modify to no lemon because it was way too tart, I also substituted white sugar for brown sugar and as others suggested I used less nutmeg. The pie crust I used 8tbs and omg it was so delicious! My mistake was not to put enough egg wash because it wasn't as golden. But overall it was amazing!!!!

[-vj]

I made this recipe last week, it was so delicious. My whole family loved it. Even tho it was my first time making pie, it was relatively easy to follow this recipe.

[zeldaxkid]

Am I the only one who really likes apple pie except for, you know, the whole "apple" part???

[angienav]

I made apple pie today by following this recipe. It was delicious! 😋

[marambaddoura]

This was one of the best recipes I have ever tried WOW

[nagomi]

I tried this recipe and the crust is amazing! I'm currently rewatching to make another pie ❤

[alinkamop]

Thank you for the recipe, I am so happy to find recipe of a crust without sugar, very tender and crusty! I cooked already apple pie, apple tart and strudel with your crust. Definately one of the best recipes