Apple Pie with Butter Crust
Apple Pie with Butter Crust
Ingredients
2 crusts
- 20 Tablespoons butter (Plugra is recommended for flakiest crust)
- 3 c. flour
- 2 T. sugar
- 1½ tsp. salt
- ½ c. ice water (plus a few extra tablespoons in case needed)
Egg wash
- 1 egg mixed with 2 tsp. water
- (Sanding sugar)
Filling
- 5 pounds apples (I used Gala, Honeycrisp & Granny Smith)
- ¼ teaspoon lemon zest
- juice from half a lemon (2 tablespoons)
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 5 T. flour
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Cut 10 T. butter into tiny cubes and 10 T. into slices or pats of butter. Chill both in separate bowls.
- Add flour, sugar, salt to a bowl and combine with hands.
- Add in the diced butter cubes and press them into the flour to create coarse crumbs with your hands.
- Once combined, add the larger "pats" of butter and flatten with fingers to coat them with flour. These pieces will stay large to create flaky layers.
- Slowly add water and mix with hands until dough starts to come together. Once it holds together, dump onto work surface and use hands to mold it into a circle. Wrap in plastic and chill 1-2 hours.
- Unwrap dough on a floured surface and dust top with flour. Cut dough in half and stack on top of each other. Cut in half again and stack so you have 4 layers stacked. Use a french rolling pin to slightly bang on the dough. Use hands to mold back into a circle. Roll out to 1½ inches thick. Cut in half and make each one a circle.
- Chill each crust 1-2 hours.
Filling
- Add zest to a large deep pot along with the lemon juice.
- Peel and slice one apple at a time (1/8 inch slices) and add the slices to the lemon juice in pot, stirring occasionally.
- Once all apples are in, put heat on medium.
- Add sugars, flour, salt and cinnamon,
- Stir very carefully so you don't break apples up.
- Once moistened, cover the pot. You will cook it 20 mins approx and stir it every 3 minutes. It is done when the apples are the right level of "done" you want in your pie! So be sure to taste one or two.
- Off heat, stir in vanilla.
- Lay apples on a sheet pan to completely cool.
- Roll out your first dough and lay in 9 inch pie pan.
- Add cooled filling.
- Roll out and Use second crust to cut 10 strips and make a lattice.
- Brush egg wash only on the center-not the edges.
- Sprinkle on sanding sugar.
- Bake at 375 for 45 minutes. (Preheat oven w baking sheet in it and bake pie on pan-use convection setting if you have one.)
- Cool a few hours before slicing.
*For a higher domed pie, increase amount of apples/filling.
Apple Filling Adapted from Food Charlatan-such a beautiful blog!
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