Martha's Buttery Apple Tree Pie

March 30, 2014

I'm embarking on a rare re-blog amongst this apple tree pie recipe. I first made it inwards 2007 together with didn't include the sum instructions. I mean value I've made it ane time every yr since together with I'm starting to worry that ane 24-hour interval Martha Stewart's spider web squad volition delete the page (they've shifted it ane time already) together with I'll live pie-less forever more.

I'm non for certain that I'd bookmark this recipe if I were to hap upon it for the get-go fourth dimension now. It's completely unsharable amongst my vegan together with gluten-free mates, amongst almost iii cups of flour together with to a greater extent than butterfat than our refrigerator has held since... well, likely since I made this pie terminal year.

But I've grown rather fond of it. The crust is crisp together with unsweetened amongst an unfeasibly high proportion of butter. The filling has the commons pinch of cinnamon together with nutmeg, but it's the multiple varieties of apple tree that render a surprising complexity (clever work, Ms Martha). And if the butter quantity seems unfeasible, the 1.8kg apple tree filling defies logic itself. It forms a mount inwards the pie crust, threatening avalanche every bit you lot gibe the pastry lid together with a pie-splosion inwards the oven.

There are about pesky interim stages where you're supposed to freeze the crust together with the pie, together with I've concluded that they're worth it, somehow they fifty-fifty out the pie's baking. I'd deem the extra butter inwards the filling less necessary, every bit it was responsible for about unattractive oozing inwards my most recent pie.

Nevertheless, this buttery apple tree pie has taken a nostalgic concur on me. It's my Melbourne wintertime pie.

Martha's buttery apple tree pie
(a metricified, annotated version of this recipe)

pastry
2 1/2 cups obviously flour
1 teaspoon salt
230g butter
1/4 - 1/2 loving cup H2O ice water

filling
1/3 loving cup obviously flour
2 tablespoons cream
1-1.6kg assorted apples
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 loving cup sugar, summation extra for dusting
1 1/4 teaspoons terra firma cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon terra firma nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
60g butter

To brand the pastry, house the flour together with tabular array salt inwards a nutrient processor. Dice the butter together with add together it to the processor, blending exclusively until the mixutre forms a coarse crumb-like texture. Add 1/4 loving cup H2O together with blend ane time to a greater extent than until the dough merely starts coming together. It should await similar this:

Add a trivial to a greater extent than H2O if it won't come upward together inside a minute, together with repeat.

Turn the dough onto a spell of plastic wrap. Form it into 2 balls together with roll them separately. Refrigerate the dough for at to the lowest degree an hour.

Roll ane of the dough balls out to gibe a pie dish. Transfer the pastry into the dish, gibe it every bit best you lot can, cut the edges together with house the crust into the freezer for xxx minutes.

Set to run on the filling. Peel together with center the apples, together with spell the flesh into bite-size pieces. Place them inwards a large bowl amongst the lemon juice, sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg together with salt.

When the pie crust is ready, remember it from the freezer together with spoon inwards the apple tree filling.  Dice the butter together with distribute it across the pie filling.

Roll out the 2nd dough ball to gibe the pie every bit a lid. Place it over the pie, pinching togther the edges. Cut slits into the pastry top. Brush the cream over the pastry together with sprinkle over the extra sugar. Freeze the pie for a farther xxx minutes.

Preheat an oven to 200°C. Bake the pie until the crust begins to become golden, almost twenty minutes. Turn the oven downwards to 180°C together with perish on to bake the pie until the crust is rattling golden together with the juices are bubbling, almost 35 to a greater extent than minutes.