Apple Pie - How to Make Pie Crust Dough
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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.
Apple Pie - How to Make Pie Crust Dough
Petra Cox with Moms Apple Pie Bakery demonstrates how to make the pie crust dough for your apple pie.
Apple Pie - How to Make Pie Crust Dough
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.
Transcripts
Petra Cox: I am Petra at Moms Pies Bakery in Occoquan, Virginia and now we are going to make an all butter crust for an apple pie. First of all, youll need pastry flour you can also use all purpose flour just use a table spoon or so less. You need two-anda-half cups and a good thing to keep in mind, when you are measuring flour for baked goods is to keep it loose in the measuring cup and so that you are not putting too much in there, it can make whole lot of difference if its too packed in.
So, we are measuring right into the food processor there, one, two and a half cups and then we are going to need a table spoon of sugar it doesnt need to be too sweet, the sweetness is going to in the filing. A tea spoon of salt and to that you need to add about two sticks of butter. The butter is chopped up into probably about a table spoon size pieces, two sticks is half of pound of butter. This is unsalted and the saltiness will come from what you have just measured in there. So, this has been chilled in the freezer, so that its not too soft when it is mixed in with the flour, otherwise it becomes a kind of soft sticky dough, which is the opposite of what you want with a pie crust dough.
Your butter has been kept in the freezer for probably about an hour after chopping it up, so that its pretty much frozen butter. So, you can just pose with the food processor. Generally, you look into breakdown the butter without really emulsifying it, you want it to be in little pieces and just get into smaller and smaller pieces, so that it integrates with the flour and the other ingredients.
Alright. Now, all the butter has been chopped up into pretty even sized pieces and mixed in with the flour and so its all kind of integrated in there. Now, it just needs a few table spoons of really ice cold water to be added while its processing, to bring the dough together.
So, we have here a glass of ice water and I am just going to take the water, table spoon at a time and add it in to the dough. So, you can keep the machine on one, two and you can see the dough is slowly starting to form. Three table spoons there four, might get a little stuck and you just kind of shake it around in there because the dough is kind of getting heavier and its hard for the blade to move it around. Then we put four, and theres five.
So, this has barely come together into a dough. It has still some crumbs in it, you dont want to mix it to the point where it becomes a sort of sticky dough, you can feel. If flour is mixed too long, it kind of forms these gluten proteins and thats what makes the dough sticky and elastic. You want this to be buttery and you want it to not stick to your fingers, when you are making it.
So, at this point you can put your dough in a bowl and you can kind of format into one big piece and at that point you can chill in the fridge for probably about two hours and then it will be ready to roll and thats how you make the dough for a butter crust pie.







Fabulous! by carolee1945 at 11/23/11 06:30PM Flag
I appreciated Petra's down home speaking style. I played the video several times, copying down the recipe, and the pie is just fabulous. However, I would like the recipe printed here!!
Great Video by coolbrie at 12/14/10 07:40PM Flag
I have watched many video but these videos are the best. All instructions are very clear, and everything I make with Petra comes out great thank you great job
Thanks! by Steven76 at 11/25/10 12:24PM Flag
This series taught me how to make the best pies! Cheers!
retire by chuy at 03/01/09 10:51PM Flag
THIS IS AWSOM
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