How to Make Perfect Apple Pie

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, apple pie. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Apple Pie is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Apple Pie is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have apple pie using 14 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Apple Pie:

1. Get sweet shortcrust pastry
2. Make ready 2 cup all purpose flour
3. Make ready 1 1/2 stick unsalted butter, cold, cut into small cubes
4. Get 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
5. Make ready 1 pinch salt
6. Make ready 2 tbsp semolina, to line the crust, and absorb moisture
7. Take 1 egg, beaten, to glaze the pie
8. Make ready filling
9. Prepare 12 eating apples, like Granny Smiths, peeled, cored and chopped into evenly-sized pieces.
10. Prepare 1 cup white sugar
11. Prepare 1/3 cup demerara sugar
12. Take 2 tbsp cornstarch
13. Make ready 3 whole cloves, ground or well crushed with the bottom of a saucepan.
14. Take 1/2 tbsp lemon juice or Jif squeezy lemon

Steps to make Apple Pie:

1. In a large bowl rub the butter into the flour until it looks like very fine breadcrumbs.
2. Add the comfectioner's sugar and salt, stir them in, then add three tablespoons of water and stir until it forms a ball, knead gently until it forms a ball.
3. Place the pastry in a bag or in plastic wrap and refridgerate it for an hour
4. Peel and chop the apples and put them into a bowl half filled with cold water with a squeeze of lemon in it.
5. Take pastry out. Cut into one third and two thirds ( the smaller piece will be the lid).
6. Roll out the larger piece, into a square shape to fit a 9 by 9 inch pie tin, if yours is circular, roll a circle.
7. Roll one side of the pastry over the rolling pin, lift it over the tin, and gently put it in place and push it down the sides. Sprinkle the semolina all over the base of the pie.
8. Drain the apples and put them in the microwave on full power for two minutes.
9. Take apples out, add the sugars mixed with the cornstarch, cloves, and lemon juice. Mix it all up, and pile it into the pie.
10. Roll out the lid, cut a hole in the middle of it, then place it over the pie. Crimp the edges by pressing your thumb down on the edges all the way round.
11. Beat an egg and brush egg over the top of the pie.
12. Bake the pie at 180 C for 30-40 minutes.
13. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly before serving, with ice cream, custard or cream.

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