apple pie

apple pie
Originally uploaded by kattebelletje.

This is a great recipe for apple pie! It is sweet, tart and very yummy at the same time, and it never fails to please! You need, for the dough: 250 grams of white plain flour; 160 grams of sugar (light brown sugar or white is fine); 200 (!) grams of butter and the grated lemon zest of one lemon. For the filling you need 6 or 7 apples, peeled, cored and sliced; the juice of 1 lemon; 3 tablespoons of sugar and , if you like, a little bit of cinnamon powder. Start making the dough, mix flour and sugar and grated zest, and add the cold butter in very small dice. Work until you have a loose, breadcrumb-like consistency. Don't overwork, if it just forms a ball, it is fine. Leave to rest while you peel and core and slice the apples. Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 175 degrees. Steep apples in lemon juice and sugar. Take a baking tin of 22cm diameter, grease it with butter, then dust on flour. Add one third of the dough to the bottom of the tin, one third to the sides of the tin. Eaven it out with your fingers, then add the sliced apples. Crumble the rest of the dough on the top of the apples and bake in a 175C oven for 1 hour, or 1 hour and 10 minutes. Check during the last stages of baking; take out when nicely browned, let cool. Open up the tin, take a big knife, get a BIG slice and devour! The lemon especially gives a really good flavour, because most apple pies sold in coffee bars are far too sweet to my liking.