My Mom's Apple Pie |
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2- Cups Flour |
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1/2 Tsp Salt |
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Just under 1/2 Cup Wesson
Vegetable Oil |
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Just over 1/2 Cup Ice Cold
Mild (Whole Milk) |
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8- McIntosh Apple 3 1/2 to
4in (today it is hard to find a good size apple, so you may need 1 or 2
more) |
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1- 1/4 lb stick of
un-salted butter |
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1- Cup Sugar |
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- First Step, take the 2 cups of flour,
and the 1/2 Tsp salt place them in a bowl, make a well in the middle
to accept the Liquids
- Next measure out the Just under 1/2 cup
of Wesson vegetable oil, and the ice cold milk up to the cup mark
- Pour the liquids into the flour/salt
bowl working it gently with a spoon until most of the liquid is
incorporated into the flour. Then finish mixing it gently with
your hands, squeezing the dough through your fingers until mixed (Do
Not Over Mix)
- Place the dough in a covered bowl in
the refrigerator.
- Start peeling your apples, the quarter
them, remove the seeds and core then cut the apples into strips
about 1/4" thick
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- Butter very lightly a 9 inch glass
pyrex pie plate, including the rim, then lightly flour
- Take the chilled dough from the
refrigerator and divide it in half, using waxed paper, cut 2 sheets
about 14 inches, place the half of dough in the center of the first
sheet, flattening it with your hands, then place the second sheet of
waxed paper over the dough and roll until even and about 1 inch
larger than your pie plate on all sides.
- Peel the top sheet of waxed paper back
about 1/2 way across the dough, then place the dough peeled side
down over the pie plate and gently pull the rest of the waxed paper
sheet out. Then remove the top waxed paper sheet.
- Center the bottom dough in the pie
plate.
- Take 1 Cup of sugar and mix it with the
apples you peeled and cut up. mixing well
- Pour this into the bottom of the pie,
including any syrup that from in the bottom of the bowl from the
apples & sugar.
- Repeat the rolling of the top of the
pie using the remaining half of the dough, use fresh waxed paper as
it tends to curl if you reuse it.
- Take the 1/4lb stick of unsalted butter
and cut it up into 1/4" slices and place these on the apples,
spreading them out evenly.
- Place the top crust over the pile of
apples after pealing one of the sheets of waxed paper off. Then when
it is centered, peal of the remaining waxed paper sheet.
- Crimp the edges of the bottom and top
dough together, and trim as needed.
- take a fork and prick the top of the
pie 10 to 20 times to make small holes for the steam to escape.
- using your fingers, coat the top of the
pie with milk to give the crust a nice golden glaze
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- Bake on the center rack for 1 hour at 400 degrees, make sure you
place a cookie sheet lines with foil on the shelf under the pie as
this pie drips allot
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