Apple Pie
Nothing special, just an apple pie recipe. I prefer pie over cake, cold pie over hot pie, and I hate vanilla ice cream. Anyone who disagrees is banned from my site. Banned I say!
Requires two pie crust rounds
Total Preparation Time
Total preparation time is ~120min
- peeling and slicing apples - 30min
- baking bottom crust - 15min
- assembly - 5min
- baking - 60min
Ingredients
- Sugar - 1 cup (215g)
- Cinnamon - 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml)
- Apples - 5-6 cups
- Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon (15ml)
- Sliced almonds - 1/4 cup (40g) (uncertain) (optional)
- Salt - 1/2 teaspoon (2.5ml)
- Uncooked pie crusts - 2
- Flour or corn starch (optional - used to thicken apple mixture) - 1 tablespoon (15ml)
- Butter (optional) - 1 tablespoon (15ml)
- Coarse sugar (optional) - a pinch
Method
- Put one pie crust in the pie plate, score the bottom, and bake at 400F (200C) until it picks up some color (~15min)
- Peel, core, and slice the apples. I usually cut them into wedges 1cm thick.
- Mix apples with lemon juice, sugar, almonds, salt, cinnamon, pour into baked bottom crust
- Optionally dot the apples with butter
- Cover with other pie crust, crimp the sides, poke holes in the top
- Sprinkle top crust with coarse sugar
- Preheat oven to 450F (230C) with a tray to catch any drippings
- Bake at 450F (230C) 10min
- Bake at 350F (175C) 40-50min