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Apple pie recipe

Ingredients (nutrition)

For Filling

  • 6 peeled Granny Smith apples, cut into wedges
  • 2 tablespoons caster sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
  • pinch of ground cloves
  • 2 tablespoons marmalade
  • 1 lightly beaten egg
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar

For Pastry

  • 8 oz plain flour
  • 1 oz self raising flour
  • 5 oz butter, cut into cubes
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons caster sugar
  • 4 1/2 tablespoons iced water

Preparation (instructions)

  1. Lightly grease pie plate with melted butter.
  2. In a saucepan, combine apples, sugar, water, lemon zest and ground cloves.
  3. Cook under low heat for 9 minutes, remove from heat, drain and set aside to cool.
  4. Meanwhile, to make the pastry, mix plain flour and raising flour in a large mixing bowl.
  5. Rub butter at fingertips and mix together with the flours to make it looks like breadcrumbs.
  6. Stir in sugar and make a well in the centre.
  7. Add iced water in the centre and mix using a pastry scraper to draw the flour together.
  8. Transfer flour mixture onto floured work surface.
  9. Press into a ball and divide into two pieces with one bigger by 1/2 the size of another.
  10. Cover with cling film and chill in refrigerator for 22 minutes.
  11. Preheat the oven to 400 degree F.
  12. Roll out the larger piece of pastry between two sheets of baking parchment and line bottom and side of pie plate.
  13. Trim away any excess pastry using a knife.
  14. Brush marmalade over bottom of the pastry shell and spoon in apple mixture.
  15. Roll out the other pastry ball between the baking parchment until enough to cover the pie.
  16. Brush water around the rim of the pastry shell and put the pastry on the top.
  17. Pinch the edges to sea, and cut a few short slits at the top to allow steam to escape.
  18. Brush the top of the pie with beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar.
  19. Bake in preheated oven for 18 minutes.
  20. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degree F.
  21. Bake for another 20 minutes.
  22. Serve hot.

Servings: 6

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