Decadent Apple Pie Recipes

DECADENT APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Pastry for double crust pie-------------.
• Combine flour, lard and salt with a pastry blender or fork until balls are the size of a large pea.
• Add cold water by the spoonful and blend until the bowl starts to clean itself as you work the dough.
• Then it is ready for rolling.
• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Combine sliced apples with sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and lemon rind.
• Line pie plate with unbaked pie crust, trim pastry, crimp to edge of pie plate. Fill pie crust with apple mixture and dot with softened butter.
• Brush crust edge with water and place pie crust top on top of pie, crimp to the bottom crust. Make some slits in the top crust for steam to escape. Bake for 10 minutes.
• Turn oven down to 350°F and bake for 45 minutes longer.

GORDON RAMSAY APPLE PIE (ALA MODE)

Steps:

• You want to first start making the filling by caramelizing the apple. Mix the cinnamon nutmeg and sugar together. Peel the apples then core and quarter, cut the qtrs. into large thick chunks. Then put them in a bowl and shank the spiced sugar to coat the apple chucks.
• You are going to fry the apples chucks in two bunches: in a wide, nonstick frying pan you are going to melt half the butter, then add half of the apple chunks, and fry until golden and caramelized around the edges over high heat, around 5 mins. After cooking place them in a large bowl. Duplicate with the remaining bunch of apples with the remaining butter. Let them cool down completely.
• Now preheat your oven to 375°F. Roll out around half of the sweet pastry on a lightly floured counter top surface to about ⅛-in. thick. The turn over an 8-inch pie tin on top of the sweet pastry and cut out an irregular circle a little larger than the pan.
• Place pastry in pie pan to line, pressing down lightly to get rid of any air pockets, and trim off the extra pastry. Now roll out remaining sweet pastry into one more circle, once more a little bigger than the pie pan, for crust top.
• Ladle the cool fried apples equally into the pie shell. With a little water Brush the rim of the bottom crust, then place the top of the crust over the pie. To seal pie Push down lightly to trim off the extra pastry. Crease the edges and brush with egg wash on the top to glaze.
• Cut a small cross in the center so that vapor can escape throughout cooking you do so by using the tip of a paring knife to. Then shank a little sugar on top.
• Place pie in oven and bake until the pie crust is golden brown and crisp, about 35 - 40 minutes. Make sure you let stand to cool for 15 - 20 minutes before cutting to serve.

FIVE-STAR APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Combine apples, brown sugar, water and lemon juice in a pot.
• Cover and cook over medium heat about five minutes or until the apples are just tender.
• Mix flour, granulated sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt and stir into apple mixture.
• Cook, stirring constantly until the syrup thickens- about 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and butter.
• Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• Prepare pastry.
• Turn the apple mixture into the pastry-lined pie pan.
• Cover with top crust with slits in it; seal and flute.
• Cover the top of the pie with a 2-3 inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning; remove foil during the last 15 minutes of baking.
• Bake 40-45 minutes or until the crust is golden brown.