Apple Pie And Dough For It: A Step By Step Recipe With A Photo

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Delicious homemade pie with dried apricots and apples: a recipe for every day

Hello dear readers and subscribers of our "Easily Together" blog. As promised in the last article, where we fried delicious brushwood with you, the next post, that is, this one, will be devoted to a wonderful and tasty topic: how to make a pie with apples and how to make an excellent pie dough.

Apple pie is a classic of the genre. There is hardly a person who would never have tried apple pie and there is hardly anyone who does not like it. The cuisine of different countries has their own recipes for this pastry. Charlotte and Taten, which came to us from France. Strudel is popular in Austria, Hungary, Germany and the Czech Republic and many more varieties.

But no matter what they are called, in my opinion, with which you, of course, have the right to disagree, in the end it is, by and large, a pie with apples. The only difference is in the preparation method and the finished appearance.

The main thing that distinguishes our apple pie from others is a recipe that is very simple and within the power of even the most inexperienced cook. Now, if you please, I'll make a pie dough. As you know, it is the basis. No dough, no pie. The apple pie itself will not be purely apple, we will add apple jam and dried apricots (dried apricots) to the filling.

Pie dough: ingredients

For the test, we need:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 2.5 tablespoons;
• salt - ½ teaspoon;
• flour - 3 cups (maybe a little less or more, how much dough it takes);
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• melted butter - 100 grams;
• warm milk - 1 glass (200 ml.);
• dry yeast - 3 teaspoons (no slide).

Dough preparation procedure

Step 1. Pour some water into a glass and pour the yeast into it, while we mix the rest of the ingredients, the yeast will dissolve. I always dissolve them in water, even if not prescribed by the recipe. First, they dissolve faster in water than, for example, in milk. And secondly, kneading the dough in which the yeast is evenly distributed throughout the entire volume is better than when it remains granules.

Step 2. Heat the milk slightly, melt the butter and combine everything in a bowl in which we will knead the dough.

Step 3. Break the eggs there and pour in the vegetable oil.

Step 4. Then add sugar and salt.

Step 5. Stir everything properly with a whisk until foam forms and pour the dissolved yeast into it.

Step 6. Sift the flour and gradually add it to our dough. You don't need to pour everything out at once, there may be a lot, and the dough will turn out to be very steep.

Step 7. Knead soft dough. Grease a clean bowl with vegetable oil, place the dough in it and cover with cling film. In this state, we send for an hour, one and a half to the refrigerator. Not in the freezer!

Meanwhile, while the pie dough is in the refrigerator, prepare the filling. Above I said that I make my pie stuffed with fresh apples, apple jam and dried apricots. Therefore, dried apricots pre-soaked in hot water cut us parts. I also cut fresh apples and mix everything with apple jam. The proportions are completely arbitrary.

If you are making your pie only with apples, then cut them into wedges and sprinkle with sugar. Apples, of course, are best cut before the actual bookmark. Otherwise, they will turn black. There is another option: sprinkle apples with lemon or orange juice, then they will not turn black and will calmly wait for their turn.

Recipe: prepare a pie with dried apricots and apples

Meanwhile, an hour and a half has passed, the dough is ready, the filling is ready. Let's get started:

Step 1. Divide the dough into 2 parts. One is larger, the second is smaller. The one that is larger is the base, which is smaller will be the top. We roll out the base so that there is enough for the sides of the form in which we will bake. I have a round one. You can have rectangular or any other.

Step 2. Put the filling on the base, cover with the second part of the dough, which was also rolled out beforehand. Let's call it the diameter of the "cap", it is smaller than the base and approximately equal to the diameter of your shape.

Step 3. Connect the edges of the two layers of dough (upper and lower parts) and braid the same braid as on dumplings. But before that, cut off the excess dough around the edges, it will come in handy for decorations. Remember to make a small hole or cut in the center of the pie. This is done so that it does not burst when baking.

Step 4. Cover the finished decorated apple pie with a napkin and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes to come up. Before baking, grease with an egg, you can only with yolk, and send it to the oven. Baking time approx. 20 minutes at 180˚C. We check the readiness with a toothpick, piercing the pie in the region of the edges - where the dough is thicker.

Leave the finished apple pie in the mold to cool slightly and only then remove it from the mold. I hope this apple pie, the recipe for which I described, will be a great decoration for your table.

Enjoy your meal!