How To Make An Apple Pie

there’s nothing as American as apple pie
hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be showing
you a recipe for this American favorite
you’ll need the ingredients for both the
filling and the crust but for now we’re
just making the crust so here’s what
you’ll need for that two cups of
all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon of salt
three quarters of a cup of shortening
and five to six tablespoons of cold
water so the first step for the crust is
to mix together the flour and the salt
next we have to cut in the shortening
until the mixture resembles the
consistency of coarse crumbs sprinkle in
the ice water a tablespoon at a time and
mix between each addition until the
dough holds together
so I’ve just formed the dough into a
ball and if it’s a hot day you’ll want
to wrap in wax paper and put it in the
fridge for half now so while we’re
waiting for our dough to cool we can
start to prepare the filling for that
you will need two thirds of a cup to
three-quarters of a cup of sugar two
tablespoons of all-purpose flour half a
teaspoon of ground cinnamon a quarter
teaspoon of ground nutmeg half a
teaspoon of grated lemon peel one to two
teaspoons of lemon juice six to seven
cups of thinly sliced peeled and cored
cooking apples which is about two pounds
one tablespoon of butter or margarine
and some milk so the first step for the
filling is to prepare the apples I will
be peeling them using this peeling
machine but you can do it the
traditional way if you like and once
that’s done you have to pour them and
then slice them into very small slices
now we’ll be combining the sugar flour
nutmeg cinnamon and lemon the amount of
sugar you’ll use depends on how tart
your apples are more sour more sugar
so now we’ve taken our dough out of the
fridge and we have to separate it into
two sections one for the bottom crust
and one for the top crust and what we’ll
do is roll it out into a circle that
will fit our pie plate
now that we’ve got our crest in the
bottom of the pie plate we’ll put in
half of these thinly sliced apples and
nice formation and then we’ll sprinkle
it with the sugar mixture and then we’ll
place the rest of the apples on top and
sprinkle it with the rest of the sugar
mixture
next we’ll gutter filling with the
butter
so for your top crust you’re going to
want to make a little fancy so you can
take either a cookie cutter or a sharp
knife or what I’ve got here which is a
pie crust stencil and make it a little
more decorative
you
it’s important to glue the pie crust
together with a little water and then
what we’ll want to do is also trim the
excess crust we’ve got hanging over the
edge and finally we’ll decorate with
these little apples
make sure your oven is preheating to 425
degrees now if you want a golden glaze
on your pie you’re going to want to
brush some milk all around the top of it
except for the edges and now the edges
are the part of the pilots most likely
to burn so if you want to prevent this
you can get one of these pie crust
protectors or you can just wrap some
aluminum foil all around the rim
you
now we’ll bake the pie for 40 or 50
minutes or until it’s golden brown