Apple pie. The most ingenious combination of dough, sugar, fruit and spices. By far, my favorite dessert. Today I made two pies. They're still in the oven. The process took quite a while. Let's just say I'm not the fastest peeler or dough roller...I believe it took about 40 minutes to peel, cut and slice/dice the 10 apples. Then an additional 30 minutes to make and roll out the dough. I do like my pie to have soft apples. In order to make a soft apple pie, I do a few things that deviate from the recipe...I know, big surprise. I almost always stray from the recipe. When I cut the apples I don't make them all uniform, making sure to cut out any of those horrid seed cocoon/shell things you find every once in a while. I slice some thin, some thick and some are cubed. This makes for different textures and consistency in the pie. So you have some slices that are fully intact and then you have a somewhat homemade applesauce as the filling. I also don't add in as much cinnamon but then add in a little extra nutmeg. As far as cooking time goes, the first ten minutes is at 400 degrees then after that I drop the temp down to 325 for 50 min. The entire cooking time is 60 min. Most recipes say about 30-40 min at 400 degrees but I like how everything cooks slower and longer. I may be tempted to just have pie for dinner tonight...I hope no one calls the food pyramid police.
Love Apple pie for breakfast! The best!! Have you ever tried a good apple-peeler-corer? I used to take forever to peel and core apples and slicve them too but I now take only minutes ot do a bunch. You can even adjust it to peel some apples thicker and some thinner and if you still want some diced then you can just use the peeler part and then dicve up a couple and still you will have shaved a ton of time off. williams-Sonoma has a good one. Also Pampered Chef.
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