Housesitting has it's up's and down's but probably one of the coolest things is being able to make apple pie from scratch! Yesterday I noticed how many ripe and delicious Granny Smith apples there were on the apple tree so I grabbed a ladder and headed up to the west side of that tree to collect pounds of gorgeous green- pink fruits. After hunting and gathering, we sent them through a cleaning assembly line, then cored and peeled them. I then sliced them and tossed them in a little lemon juice, and doused them in a mixture of sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and a little flour. Slipped the sliced, seasoned apples in the fridge to marry the flavors and began my dough before heading off to work for the evening. The dough was a simple mixture of flour, salt, chilled butter and ice cold water until made into a ball. Refrigerated the dough for 4 hours! I then rolled out the dough for the top and bottom crust to our delicious pie!
Easy now, place crust on pie baking dish and press around the bottom and sides, place apple filling in the dish (maneuvering apples to fill every open space to pack the pie with flavor), top the apples with 1/3" slices of butter, place other rolled dough over top of the dish and make slices to the top to create ventilation through the pie (see pictures below). Trim the extra dough from the edges and pinch sides together. Here you can get creative with design or just let it be rustic looking... However you like it! Then bake at 425 degrees for the first 15 minutes and then for the next 40-45 minutes at 350 or until the crust is a nice golden brown.
Vooalha!! A beautiful pie! Enjoy with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream!
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