Apple pie

16 servings

Ingredients

• 2 pie crusts (buy them)
• 7-8 apples
• 1/2 cup (113 g) butter
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup white sugar (can be halved)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (can be halved)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp vanilla

Recipe

1. Peel and cube apples.
2. Oven: 425 °F = 218 °C.
3. In a pan, melt butter (medium heat). Add flour and mix.
4. Add water, sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. Bring to a boil for 1 minute, then simmer for a minute.
5. Remove from heat. (Put aside 1/3 cup, or use all if you don’t want to brush the pie with this).
6. Mix remaining filling with apples. Toss.
7. Lie pie crust in a pie pan. Pour apples in.
8. Cut second pie crust into strips.
9. Make lattice design above the pie. (Brush with the rest of the filling, or skip).
10. Cover the pie with aluminium (buttered maybe to not stick to the pie).
11. Bake for 10-12 min.
12. Reduce heat to 350 °F = 176 °C. Bake for 50 min (foil can be removed in the last 10 min).

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from audreysapron

notes on the recipe:
half these quantities gave me 8 mini-pies, 4 apples were more than enough. I halved the sugar (ie 1/4 of the original recipe), and the caramel was chunky. Last time is was super sticky, in any case it’s not useful to brush the pie.