Look forward for Apple Pie..~ 想吃苹果派...^^

Apple a day Keep the doctor away...haha this is the saying...but  it really works.

 There is a few granny smith apple laying in the fridge fruits and vegetables compartment for a few days need to get rid of them. I guess making Apple Pie is the best way....^^

~ Apple Pie..I love it ~

~ I make 2 of this Apple Pie with this recipe ~

Ingredients for Apple filling:

3 granny smith apples ~peeled and diced 

1 tbsp butter

2 tbsp sugar

2 1/2 tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp lemon zest

1 1/2 tbsp plain flour

To Do:

1) Mix cubed apple, sugar, brown sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest together.

~This it the cored and diced apples~

 ~All the ingredients are added to the apple~

2) In a sauce pan add in butter and saute the mixed apple until it is soften.

3) Add in flour and stir to combine, dish up and let it cool.

~Apple filling is ready~

Ingredient for pastry crust:

60g butter

120g plain flour ~ sieve

55g icing sugar ~ sieve

1 yolk

1-2 tbsp ice cold water

To do:

1) Rub butter into the flour and icing sugar with your finger tips till bread crumbs assemble. Mix in yolk and cold water mix into a dough.

2) Wrap the dough with a piece of cling foil and put into fridge for 20-30 minutes.

3) Roll the pastry flat about 5mm thick and cut out a round piece to put into the pie pan and tuck in neatly.

4) Fill in the apple filling into the pie case. Again, roll out a piece of pastry into  5mm thick and cut into 1cm width strips for the pie cover.

5) Bake in a preheated oven at 200c for 20 minutes

Below is the method of pleating the pie cover..

~Rolled the pastry into retangle and cut into long strips~

~~Lay two strips on a piece of plastic sheet, like a cross~

~Lay another two, one on top of the horizontal piece and one under the horizontal piece but lay in vertical line~

 ~Repeating the steps again with another two pieces~

 ~If you find that the pieces is blocking in the process, you can just simply fold up that piece~

 ~When it is finish pleated, just cut out a round shape with the pie tray and cover on top of the filled with apple filling pie case...brush the side of the pie case before putting on the cover~

~This is the look of my loose bottom pie tray.

 ~Thid is the end result of the pie case~

~Brush with egg mixture to give the shinning and even browning look when it is bake~

~Yummy ~~ its done~

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