GREEN MOUNTAIN ORCHARDS APPLE PIE

 

TOOLS REQUIRED:

 

Food processor/hand blender, bowl, knife, rolling pin, pastry cloth, rolling pin pastry sock, pastry brush

 

INGREDIENTS:

 

    CRUST:

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• 2 sticks cold butter

• 1 1/2 cup pastry flour

• 1 cup all purpose flour

• 2 tablespoons sugar

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 6-9 tablespoons ice water

 

    FILLING:

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• 2 lb 5 oz. cored, peeled, sliced apples

• 1 cup sugar

• 1/3 cup flour

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• 1 pinch of mace

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    WASH:

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• 1 egg

• a sprinkle of sugar

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DIRECTIONS:

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1.)    Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prepare apples (use a tart variety: northern spy is the best, but isn’t ready until later in the season) for pie filling beforehand & set aside.

 

2.)    Cut cold butter into chunks & place in bottom of blender, add other ingredients except for the ice water & pulse for roughly 15 seconds. Butter should be in pea size chunks, no smaller. If you don’t have a food processor you can use a hand pastry blender. Transfer mixture in bowl & add ice water. Mix the flour mixture with ice water as minimally as possible & form into two balls of dough. The less you mix at this stage, the more flakey your crust will be. Cover & refrigerate for at least 20 minutes before rolling out.

 

3.)    Mix apples with sugar, flour, cinnamon & mace & set aside.

 

4.)    Get out your pastry cloth, rolling pin & rolling pin sock & cover pastry cloth w/ a thin layer of flour. Remove dough from fridge & roll into 12” circles about 1/8” thick. Handle the dough as little as possible. This will keep your crust flaky.

 

5.)    Place one dough circle in your 10” pie dish, fill with apple filling & place the other circle on top. Fold top crust over bottom crust & press lightly onto rim of pie plate.

 

6.)    For egg wash, wisk 1 egg & 1 teaspoon of water in a glass & spread lightly over top crust with pastry brush. Sprinkle sugar over the pie after egg washing. Make three small slits with a knife in the top crust.

 

7.)    Bake the pie @ 400 degrees for 15 minutes & then @ 350 degrees for 1 hour or until knife slides through top slits down through apples to pie dish with no resistance. Serve hot or cold, plain or with cheddar cheese, vanilla ice cream, crème fraiche or greek yogurt.