Today I was feeling like experimenting! We had some gala apples that needed to be used so I grabbed one of my favorite cookbooks that my home ward had put together. The neighbors from Fruit Heights have contributed some really great recipes. I saw a recipe for apple pie but I didnt have the ingredients that it called for so I made up my own version and it actually was really really good.
I used the crust recipe from the pie pantry.
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 cup of butter flavored shortening
1 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup of ice cold water.
The crust came out very flaky and buttery! It was delicious!
For the apple filling, I cut up 4 gala apples
splashed them with lemon juice
sprinkled on some cinnamon and sugar and let that mixture sit for a few minute.
Right before filling my crust I sprinkled in some corn starch so that the apple mixture would thicken in the oven! It was a fun little project. I have no clue how to make pie but I think that actually worked. Thank goodness. We have too many projects that dont turn out!!
Dinner was a experiment too but it isnt done yet, so time will tell...
4 comments:
Wow! That sounds delicious. You have good pie making genes!
I am impressed. I wouldn't have thought about using corn starch to thicken the juice up... good idea!
Katie and I made a family cookbook of our favorite recipes a few years ago but didn't get all the recipes we wanted because we didn't tell anyone we were making it... so we are just adding to it and such. We are also going to get it published so its actually professionalish!
Way to go girl! You are definately your dads girl. You are now on the pie team for Thanksgiving!
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