Adapted from a recipe on www.bestrecipes.com.au
You just can’t go wrong with an apple pie.
Serves 8
Ingredients
Filling
6 apple cooked large
3/4 cup water
1 tbs sugar *to taste
Pastry
2 cup self-raising flour
125 g butter, cold from the fridge
2 tbs sugar
1 egg
2 tbs water
Method
Peel and slice apples into a medium size pot with sugar and water.
Bring to boil and simmer until cooked – this won’t take long. Drain and cool.
Sift flour into mixing bowl and add sugar and butter. Cut butter in with a knife (or whizz
in a food processor) until mixture resembles bread crumbs.
Add beaten egg and water. Rest pastry dough in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
Roll out half the dough with a rolling pin, adding flour as needed. Cover the bottom of
a greased and floured pie dish with the rolled out pastry, add apples and repeat with
the rest of the pastry on the top. (You can mke a lattice top by cutting the pastry into
long strips and laying them horizontally and vertically. Carefully weave the pastry strips
under and over each other in a basket weave pattern.)
Cut around the edge of pie dish with a knife and press layers together with a floured
fork. Brush the top with a little milk and sprinkle with caster sugar.
Bake at 180C (170C fan forced) for approximately 45-60 minutes until the top is brown.
You can roll out the remainder of the pastry and spread with jam, roll it up and cook on
a tray alongside the pie. This makes a nice slice.
For a quicker solution, swap the homemade pastry for 2-3 sheets of frozen sweet shortcrust pastry, thawed.
Enjoy!