July 1, 2011: Route Trip Apple Tree Pies

jetting up to Sydney for to a greater extent than or less warmth was a existent treat, I almost prefer hitting the route alongside our friends Mike as well as Jo. We accept this dominion that nosotros accept to halt at every opened upwards small-town op store nosotros pass, nosotros swallow as well as quaff as well as walk as well as play cards, if we're lucky there's a fireplace. We tin never concur on driving music.

Kurma Dasa recipe as well as free-styled the filling. They hold off oozy as well as collapsed when I banking enterprise lucifer on the oven but the pastry held it together equally they cooled; I didn't intend I'd live blogging them. Michael shoved the pastries into a lunchbox field I panicked well-nigh toothbrushes as well as shoes.

Tired as well as coming downward alongside a cold, I slept through the concluding span hours of daylight. I awoke to tranquillity roads, a pretty sunset, as well as the concluding pie. It was pretty damn good! Worth a dim photograph as well as slightly sappy weblog post.

Road trip apple tree pies
(pastry based on this recipe past times Kurma Dasa)

i 1/2 cups evidently flour
2 tablespoons castor sugar
pinch of salt
125g butter
i tablespoon mutual depression temperature water
2 teaspoons white vinegar
three large apples
juice of one-half a lemon
pinch of soil star anise
larger pinch of soil ginger
2 tablespoons brownish sugar

In a nutrient processor combine the flour, castor saccharide as well as salt. Add the butter inwards cubes as well as pulse the mixture until it resembles staff of life crumbs. Sprinkle over the H2O as well as vinegar as well as procedure the mixture until it comes together equally a moist dough. Turn the dough onto a build clean surface, convey it together into a ball alongside your hands, wind it inwards plastic, as well as store it inwards the refrigerator for at to the lowest degree one-half an hour.

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray alongside paper. Peel the apples as well as roughly chop them. Stir through the lemon juice, star anise, ginger as well as brownish sugar.

Divide the dough into quarters. Place a dough-ball betwixt ii sheets of plastic wind as well as curlicue it into a petroleum circle 2-3mm thick. Spoon a quarter of the diced apples onto the pastry, leaving a 1-2cm broad perimeter clear. Fold upwards the edges as well as pinch them together as well as then that they shape a petroleum wall circular the pie edge, as well as transfer the pie to the baking tray. Repeat alongside the remaining pastry as well as apples. Spoon over whatever sugary juice that mightiness stay inwards the bottom of the bowl that held the apples.

Bake the pies until the pastry is trouble solid as well as golden, 20-30 minutes. Allow them to cool a fleck earlier packing them away to portion on the road.