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American apple pie
The most common dessert among North Americans is the American apple pie. An improvised sandy basket is filled with a large number of apples soaked in cinnamon, lemon, nutmeg, and butter. The top of the basket remains half-open, in other words - covered with woven dough.
Preparation time: 3 hours (including 2 hours of chilling the dough in the refrigerator).
Ingredients
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- flour, all-purpose - 300 g;
- frozen butter 82% - 200 g;
- ice-cold purified water - 100 ml;
- fine salt - a pinch.
Filling:
- juicy apples - 600 g;
- starch (preferably corn) - 17 g;
- flour, all-purpose - 17 g;
- white sugar - 100 g;
- lemon - juice of 1/2;
- butter 82% - 20 g;
- cinnamon - 1/2 tsp;
- nutmeg - a pinch.
For greasing the pie
- egg yolk - 1 piece.
Preparation
- Prepare the ingredients for making the American apple pie. If you will use a chopper or food processor for mixing, the frozen butter should be cut into cubes. Conversely, it should be left whole if the process will be done by hand.
- Prepare the ingredients for the filling.
- The butter and flour should be rubbed together. The easiest way to do this is to grind them in a food processor with round blades until the butter is the size of a match head. If you don't have such equipment, grate the butter directly into the flour, then mix everything into a crumbly creamy-flour mixture.
- Add very cold water to the mixture and stir until it turns into a sticky lump.
- Form a brick from the dough, cover it with plastic wrap, and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Shortly before the end of this period, start preparing the filling and preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Remove the cores and skins from the apples. Then cut them into thin slices, no more than 5 millimeters thick.
- Place them in a bowl suitable for mixing. Season with cinnamon, grated nutmeg, and sugar. To add a fresh citrus note and to prevent oxidation, drizzle the slices with lemon juice.
- Melt the butter and pour it into the filling.
- Gently mix.
- Take out the chilled dough, cut off 2/3 of it.
- Roll it out, dusting with flour as needed, to a thickness of 3-4 millimeters.
- Transfer it to a form so that the edges hang over the sides. Cut off the excess.
- Fill the resulting basket with the filling.
- Roll out a third of the remaining dough in a similar way. Use a special roller to create a lattice or cut the sheet with a knife into narrow strips to weave them decoratively over the surface of the pie.
- Slightly stretch the lattice sheet and cover the apples.
- Attach the edges of the borders to the lattice and fold them under. Mix the yolk with 5 milliliters of water and brush the surface of the pie. Send the preparation to the oven at the middle level.
- After 45 minutes, the pie will become golden and fully baked.
- The American apple pie is ready. During the baking process, the pie emits aromas that create an extraordinary appetite. It's even hard to determine in which form it tastes better (hot or cooled). One can definitely say this: such a pie will bring many pleasant moments to the whole family.
Try it, bon appétit!
