Meg's Apple Pie
Delicious pie with fresh apples. Great for any season espcially in the fall and for Thanksgiving.
Equipment
- Cutting board, apple peeler, knife, measuring spoons and cups, rolling pin, marble slab or pastry mat, 2 large bowls, 9 inch pie pan, small bowl, wisk or fork for beating the egg white, pastry brush
Ingredients
- 7-9 large apples, peeled recommend Granny Smith or other firm apples
- 1 teas lemon juice optional, use to keep apple slices from turning brown
- 2 - 3 tbsp flour use more if you like a thicker sauce for the filling
- 1/4 teas ginger (optional)
- 1/2 teas nutmeg
- 3/4 teas cinnamon
- 1/2 teas salt
- 2 tbsp cold butter, cut up
- 2 tbsp white sugar can use all brown or raw sugars
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 egg white beatened with a dash of water
- 1 -2 tbsp milk add to apples or use to coat top crust when baking
- 1 9 inch uncooked pie shell, top and bottom use Pillsbury rolled pie crust. Roll until thin. If using a mat, roll until the printed words can be seen faintly.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Peel and slice washed apples. Don't nmake slices thick
- Dry apples on paper or cloth towel, stir with lemon juice
- Put apples in large bowl. Add all dry ingredients. Toss or stir to coat.
- Optional: add milk to the apples and toss or omit
- Arrange apples in a heaping pile in pie pan lined with crust. They will reduce in size.
- Dot top of apples with cut up butter pieces
- Cover with top crust or lattice
- If using a solid crust for the top, slit 3 or 4 short vent holes randomly. This allows the steam to escape while baking. Be careful to not cut the bottom crust.
- Always crimp the edges to seal the top and bottom crusts together using a fork. You can also pinch edges with your fingers to seal.
- Paint egg white with added dash of water beaten together on top crust for golden color.
- Options for browning crust Using pastry bruah coat top with milk. Or sprinkle suger and cinnamon over the top.
- Baked 375 degrees 45 - 60 minutes until golden! Sometimes you may need to bake a little longer. If it needs to bake more, cover with foil to keep crust from getting too dark.