Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Grandma's Apple Pie

Hello everybody, it's me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, Recipe of Award-winning Grandma's Apple Pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Many things affect the quality of taste from Grandma's Apple Pie, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Grandma's Apple Pie delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.

As for the number of servings that can be served to make Grandma's Apple Pie is 8 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Grandma's Apple Pie estimated approx 2 hours.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook Grandma's Apple Pie using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

This is a very old recipe and I can say it has only become better over time. It takes a while to prepare this baby but I wouldn't trade the happy faces I get to see when I serve this pie for any amount of work it takes to bake it.
The pastry recipe I put below can be used for any kind of pie, tarts, quiche. Just skip on the sugar if you're baking a savory pie.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Grandma's Apple Pie:

1. lattice-top pie
2. 2 cup all-purpose flour
3. 1 tsp salt
4. 2/3 cup shortening or chilled butter, cut into small cubes (unsalted unless making a savory pie)
5. 2 tbsp sugar (granulated or icing sugar)
6. 1 ice cold water (around 6-8 tablespoons)
7. 3 egg yolks
8. pie filling
9. 6 apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced (I prefer Gala, Fuji or Pacific Rose)
10. 3/4 to 1 cup sugar, according to apples used (preferably powered)
11. 2 tbsp flour for thickening
12. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
13. pinch full of ground nutmeg
14. 1 tbsp lime juice
15. 1 tsp vanilla extract
16. 2 tbsp butter or margarine

Steps to make Grandma's Apple Pie

1. For pastry; mix flour, salt and sugar together and add butter to it. Toss the mix with a fork until small pea-sized lumps begin to form.
2. Slowly start adding ice cold water to the mixture, around 1 tablespoon at a time, while mixing it all together (in this step mix by using hands or a blender. Hands preferred so you know the consistency of the dough.). Continue adding water until the dough just starts to hold together. Do not add too much water or you will have a chewy, tough crust.
3. Form the dough in a mound (do not over knead the dough. This will release gluten and spoil the texture of pie crust). Divide it into two parts. Form into ballls. Roll one balls out around 1/8 inch thick over a floured surface. You could choose to refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes before the rolling it out but that's optional.
4. Line the rolled pastry in a pie plate, trim off the excess dough along the edges and cover the plate with some cling film. I used an 8 inch removal-bottom plate in this recipe.
5. Toss the plate into fridge and let it cool for at least 30 minutes to an hour. Meanwhile heat your oven to 180°C.
6. Remove the pie plate from the fridge, take off the cling film. Prick the lined pastry a few times all over with a fork. This will avoid formation of bubbles or uneven baking. But do not prick if filling and crust are baked together.
7. Bake the pie for around 20 minutes or until it is golden in color. You could also line the pastry with baking paper, put some weights like beans over the baking paper and then bake. This too ensures no bubbles form in the pie crust.
8. Let the pie crust cool. Beat 3 egg yolks and give the baked crust a nice egg wash. Bake again at 180°C for 5 minutes. This makes the crust water-proof, ie it won't get soggy after you add filling to the pie.
9. Mix all the filling ingredients together and fill into the baked pie crust. Dot butter or margarine over the filling. I added a few cashew nut pieces to the filling for a little crunch.
10. For the top crust, roll the other ball of dough (preferably refrigerated before rolling) and cut it into 1/2 inch thick stripes with a knife or a pizze cutter. Weave the mesh like pattern right over the pie plate after adding the filling. Trim off the excess dough along the edges of the plate. Give the top crust a nice egg wash.
11. Bake the pie for about 50 minutes at 180°C or until top crust is nice and golden.
12. Enjoy the fruits of your labor with some freah cream!

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