Autumn is the time of harvesting of ripe fruits, including wonderful fragrant apples of various varieties. Apples are not only tasty and useful, it is also quite a suitable component for baking.
Let's try for a change to learn how to bake a real American apple pie, following the classic recipe. Such simple baking does not require much work and time, but it definitely will please your guests and your family, they will obviously be pleasantly surprised.
Tell you how to cook a traditional American apple pie. Apples are best to choose a light, sweet and sour taste.
The dough for this pie is made quite simply, we will be careful, we precisely observe the recipe and then everything will turn out the best way.
American apple pie - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 300 g + a little for sprinkling;
- natural butter - 150 g;
- water ice - 90 ml;
- Calvados, brandy or whiskey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- fresh apples - 6 pcs .;
- sugar - 200 g;
- starch - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- cinnamon - 2 pinch;
- nutmeg - 1 pinch;
- lemon - 0,5 pieces;
- egg for lubrication.
Preparation
Pre-frozen to hardness butter, grind with a grater or chopped into a small crumb.
In a working bowl, mix the oil with flour and carefully, but do not stir or grind for a long time, it is most convenient to do this with a fork.
In the ice water, we pour in calvados or brandy and a little lemon juice. Add this mixture to butter and flour and knead the dough, form a com, which is wrapped in a food film and placed for 40-60 minutes in the refrigerator. It is important that the dough does not become warm, so we do everything quickly.
Mine, drying and peeling apples, removing seeds, cut into pieces not too finely. To cut the apples are not darkened, pour them with lemon juice.
In a separate bowl, mix sugar, starch, cinnamon, nutmeg. Sprinkle this mixture with pieces of apples and mix.
We build a pie, best of all in a round shape. We divide the "rested" dough into 2 unequal parts, one slightly more than the other. Lubricate the butter with a mold (silicone can be lubricated, which is very convenient). Most of the dough is rolled into the substrate, so put it on the bottom of the mold so that it protrudes slightly beyond the edges, it will be "bows". Now lay out on the substrate apple filling.
Roll out the second part of the dough and cover the pie with the layer. Protopyvaem-we fasten the edges. In the center of the pie, make a round hole, so that in the process of baking out pairs.
How to bake an American apple pie?
The form with the pie is sent to a preheated oven for 40 minutes, the optimum baking temperature is 220 degrees. We already lubricate the finished pie with the egg yolk, let it stand for 10 minutes before cutting into segments.
To the traditional American apple pie, it is good to serve the appropriate drinks, for example, coffee, tea, freshly squeezed fruit juices with water.