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How to Make an Apple Pie

How to Make an Apple Pie

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Petra Cox
www.momsapplepieco.com  
 

Petra is a specialty baker for Mom's Apple Pie Company, a family-run bakery with four locations in Northern Virginia. By the time she was born, the family business had been operating from their home for three years. Petra and her siblings grew up rolling crusts, peeling apples and baking pies with their parents from early on. In addition to bakery experience, Petra trained with family friend, Is Harris, making a variety of Thai cuisine from scratch, punctuating her culinary appreciation for both sweet and savory flavors and techniques. Subsequent training in oenology and cuisine both in Florence, Italy and Washington, DC led to her current position as wine buyer and recipe research and development at Mom's Apple Pie in Occoquan, Virginia.

How to Make an Apple Pie

 

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How to Make an Apple Pie

Ingredients

Apple Pie:
2 1/2 cups of flour
2 sticks of unsalted butter
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
3 York apples
A few tablespoons of ice water
1 cup of sugar
1 heaping tablespoon of cornstarch
A touch of salt
1 teaspoon of cinammon
Egg wash:
1 egg
A few tablespoons of sugar

Instructions

1. Add the flour, sugar, salt and butter to a food processor. The butter should be sliced into tablesppon size pieces and chilled in the freezer for an hour. Mix these ingredients together with the food processor.


2. Add ice water to the dough, one tablespoon at a time, to help it come together. When finished, put the dough in  a bowl and stick it in the fridge for 2 hours.


3. Let the dough sit on the counter for 15 minutes before you start working with it. Have a well-floured surface to work on. cut the dough roughly into two pieces and roll into balls. Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough. Flip the dough after each pass of the rolling pin.


4. Put the dough for the bottom of the pie in a pie tin. Set the dough for the top of the pie aside. While you make the filling, leave the dough in the fridge.


5. Cut the apple into sections and remove the core. Peel the skin off if you would like to.


6. Mix the sugar and cornstarch together along with salt and cinammon. Toss the apples into the mix until they are nicely coated.


7. Place the filling in the pie tin. Gently place the dough for the top of the pie over the filling. Trim the excess dough, leaving three quarters of an inch hanging over the pie tin. Take the top crust and fold it gently under the bottom crust. Pinch them together with your thumb and forefinger all around the pie. You oculd also use a fork to make marks for extra decoration.


8. Take the egg wash and gently paint the top crust with a pastry brush.


9. Bake the pie for an hour at 375-400 degrees.

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I am Petra with Moms Apple Pie Bakery in Occoquan, Virginia, where our family business is been making pies over 25 years. Today we are going to make a butter crust apple pie. Alright, lets go.

So, here we have all the ingredients and tools you are going to need to make your butter crust apple pie, and for the dough, for the crust, we have pastry flour, which is a little more fine than all-purpose flour. We have about two sticks of unsalted butter. You use only one tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt. You are going to use a food processor to get all of those ingredients together.

At the end of processing those ingredients you add just a few tablespoons of ice water, just to pull the dough together. For the filling, of course you are going to need apple, this about three York apple, they are kind of large apples, they are an old fashioned, they are really tart and really flavorful. But you can you use any nice, tart firm apple like a green Golden Delicious, its a really good one to use, or Granny Smith. Also, for the filling, you need more sugar, probably about a cup of sugar, and a heaping tablespoon of cornstarch. A touch of salt and cinnamon to taste, we use about a teaspoon, not too much, so you can still taste the really nice fresh apples. You of course need a rolling pin to roll out your dough, and when youre done putting the pie together, youre going to paint it with egg wash, so thats basically just an egg and a few tablespoons of sugar, just to give it a nice shine on the top, and thats all the tools you need.

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