Autumn’s most wonderful apple pie is covered with a pastry lid.
Grandma Duck’s apple pies are familiar to everyone who has read Donald Duck. The smell of pies cooling on the windowsill wafts far away, and the image is not far-fetched. Under the dough cover, the apple pie filling is wonderfully soft and aromatic.
Making a dough cover may sound difficult, but it’s not. Baking an American apple pie made in the style of Grandma Duck is actually quite easy. The dough is ready to be kneaded with your fingers, so no beaters are needed.
For the filling, the apples are chopped, but since the cubes remain under the dough cover, they do not have to be the same size as the tin.
The best apple pie is always made from sour apple varieties. So if you have apples growing in your yard that don’t taste good as eating apples, they’re probably perfect in an apple pie.
Grandma Anka’s apple pie
1 dl sugar
4.5 dl wheat flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
150 g of butter
0.5 dl of water
Filling:
1 kg sour apples
1 dl sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
a pinch of salt
2 tablespoons of wheat flour
1. Measure the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add the butter and crumble the mixture with your fingers.
2. Add cold water and mix into a dough.
3. Wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the fridge while you prepare the filling.
4. Start preparing the filling by cutting the apples into small cubes and put the cubes in a bowl. Add sugar, cinnamon, salt and flour to the bowl and mix the filling until smooth.
5. Divide the dough into two parts.
6. Press half of the dough into the pan (diameter 23–24 cm) so that the dough covers the bottom of the pan and well around the edges. Roll out another piece of dough to cover the pie.
7. Pour the apple filling into the center of the pan.
8. Lubricate the edges with water, cover the pie with a pastry lid and pinch the edges shut. Brush the surface of the pie with water and sprinkle a little sugar on top. Use a fork to poke steam vents in the surface.
9. Bake the pie at 200 degrees on the lower level of the oven for 15 minutes. Lower the heat and cook at 175 degrees for about 45 minutes. Serve the pie warm.