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Apple Pie - How to Patch a Pie Crust

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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.

Apple Pie - How to Patch a Pie Crust

 

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Apple Pie - How to Patch a Pie Crust

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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Petra Cox: I am Petra from Moms Apple Pie Company in Occoquan, Virginia and we are making a butter crust apple pie today. Just to help you with one of the most common problems in using a nice delicate butter crust pie. Its when a crust breaks, when you are trying to put it into the pie tin, its such a delicate crust that it happens really easily that you need to know how to patch it up if that does happen.

So, there is some extra crust kind of hanging around here that you can use. You just get a small piece and you put it in the -- where the crack happens. The reason you dont want to just let the crack go, is that the fruit juices will go under the crust and sort of caramelize and get really sticky and ruin your pie crust.

So, you want to take a little over sized piece of dough there and stick it in there. You dont want to work it too hard, you just want to mend the edges just a little bit, so that you can still use that bottom crust, its perfectly usable. You might have a few cracks that you need to do with, but you just take any extra little piece of dough and put it in there and gently work it in. Also, if there is a part where the dough has become a little bit thinner and you are afraid that thejuices from the fruit will kind of break it apart of it. You can just patch it up with a tiny little piece of dough and just be very gentle so that you dont cause any more cracks. That is how you patch a pie crust.

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