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Paula's Apple Pie Filling Recipe courtesy Paula Deen, 2008
Show: Paula's Party
3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling
Freshly ground nutmeg, to taste
7 medium apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 lemon, zested and juiced
Paula's Perfect Pie Crust, recipe follows
3 tablespoons butter, diced
Egg wash, for brushing
Sugar, for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Mix together the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small bowl. In another bowl, sprinkle apples with the juice of 1 lemon and toss. Stir in the sugar mixture to evenly coat the apples.
Set aside. Roll out chilled dough into 2 circles and use 1 round to line a 9-inch pie pan. Chill the other round.
Mound the apple and sugar mixture into the pie pan lined with dough. Dot with the cubed butter.
Using a pastry cutter, cut an even number of strips from the remaining rolled out dough. Transfer every other strip to the pie top and weave in the lattice by folding every other strip back onto itself and laying another strip perpendicularly. Fold the strips back across and repeat until completed.
Brush the top of the pie with egg wash and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Trim the overhanging dough and crimp edges.
Bake pie for 45 minutes. Let rest 20 minutes before slicing.
Paula's Perfect Pie Crust:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon fine salt
3 tablespoons granulated white sugar
1/4 cup vegetable shortening, cold
12 tablespoons butter, cold and cubed
1/4 cup to 1/2 cup ice water
In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, salt and sugar. Add the shortening and break it up with your hands as you start to coat it all up with the flour. Add the cold butter cubes and work it into the flour with your hands or a pastry cutter. Work it quickly, so the butter doesn't get too soft, until the mixture is crumbly, like very coarse cornmeal. Add the ice water, a little at a time, until the mixture comes together forming a dough. Bring the dough together into a ball.
When it comes together stop working it otherwise the dough will get over-worked and tough. Divide the dough in half and flatten it slightly to form a disk shape. Wrap each disk in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. On a floured surface roll each disk out into a 10 to 11-inch circle to make a 9-inch pie.
Yield: 2 (9-inch) pie crusts
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Location: east river, South Dakota | Subject: RE: Fall Means Apples and Apples mean Pie
Apples also means apple butter makin' time. I have a great recip that I have "fiddled" with a bit. You make the applebutetr in a crock pot, uncoverd on high all day on low all night and then put into jars. REALLY easy and makes the house smell wonderfull. I haven't made it for a few years but I am thinking this year I will have the time, since I haven't found a job yet. Fudge and apple butter are probably going to be real high on what folks are getting from me for Christmas.
Of course I am also busy helping furnish the new/used camper one of my sisters and i just purchased together. She is also single, her kids are all grown. That means that next summer Jane (my sister), her bassett Meg and Iwil be doing at leat a few weekends of "ADVENTURING". Of course one of my brothers ad to remind us to make sure the bed supports are really strong and in correctly, IF we were to get up to any ..... well..... "activity". We have decided the table, made into a bed will have to do for that.  |
Fall Means Apples and Apples mean Pie
