Cook book

Oma’s Apple Pie

Cinnamon-scented apple pie with golden melt-in-the-mouth pastry is the ultimate comfort food

Dish Summary

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 200°C

2. Mix flour with margarine blocks and white sugar. Add a bit of salt and 1½ egg. Knead the mix well with cold hands until it all comes together and leave the mixture in the fridge

3. Soak the raisins in lukewarm water whilst peeling and slicing apples. Put apple slices in a bowl and mix well with brown sugar and cinnamon.

4. Grease a tin with a knob of margarine. Separate the dough roughly into two.

5. Find a clean surface and sprinkle it and a roller with flour Flatten one piece of the dough and use a roller to get an even base slightly larger than that of the base of the tin. Then place the flattened dough into the tin and allow the edges of the dough to cover some of the edge of the tin.

6. Now take the dough set aside and role in a rectangular shape into a similar thickness as the base and place around the inside of the edge of the tin. Set all leftover dough to the side.

7. Dry raisins well with some kitchen roll. Place the apples in the tin and mix with raisins.

8. Roll leftover dough and place it on top of the filling to create a crisscross pattern.  Use yolk of one egg to glaze the crisscross pattern and the gaps in between.

9. Place pie into the oven for 40 minutes.

Serves 8

Ingredients

· 350g plain flour + a little extra

· 150g margarine cut into small blocks + a little extra

· 75g white sugar

· Salt

· 3 eggs

· 100g raisins

· 6 apples

· Cinnamon

· 50g brown sugar

45 min preparation + 50 min cooking

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Serve with tea or coffee