K1. Deep Dish Apple Pie

This recipe I am sharing with you right now isn’t just your ordinary apple pie it is a deep dish apple pie! This is an intermediate level making recipe and takes only one hour to cook and 45 minutes to prep. The ingredients you will need for this is: Granny Smith apples, lemon, orange, freshly squeezed lemon juice and orange juice, all-purpose flour, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, pie crust and egg beaten with water. How To:

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 2: Cut 4 pounds of the apple quarters in thirds crosswise and combine in a mixing bowl with 1 zested lemon and orange with 2 tablespoons of the lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of the oranges juice along with ½ cup of sugar, ¼ cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of kosher salt, ¾ teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, and 1/8 teaspoon of allspice.

Step 3: Now roll out half the pie dough and drape it over a 9 or 10 inch pie pan to extend about ½ inch over the rim. Then don’t stretch the dough! IT it’s too small, just put it back on the board and re rolls it.

Step 4: Next fill the pie with the apple mixture you just made. Then brush the edge of the bottom pie crust with the egg wash so the top of the crust will adhere. 

Step 5: Top with the second crust and trim the edges to about 1 inch over the rim. Next tuck the edge of the top crust under the edge of the bottom crust and crimp the 2 together with a fork our fingers.

Step 6: Brush the entire top crust with the egg wash, and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of sugar and cut about 4 or 5 slits.

To make the perfect pie crust:

Ingredients: unsalted butter, all-purpose flour, kosher salt, sugar, cold vegetable shortening, and ice water.

Step 1: Ice 12 tablespoons of unsalted butter and return it to the fridge while preparing the flour mixture.

Step 2: Place 3 cups of flour with 1 tablespoons of sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix.

Step 3: Add the butter and 1/3 cup of shortening. Pulse 8 to 12 times, until the butter is the size of peas.

Step 4: With the machine running, pour the ice water down the feed tube and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball,

Step 5: Now dump out on a floured board and roll into a ball. Then wrap in plastic wrap and fridge for 30 minutes.

Step 6: Next cut the dough in half. And roll each piece on a well-floured board into a circle, rolling from the center to the edge, turning and flouring the dough to make sure it doesn’t stick to the board.

Step 7: Now fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan. Repeat with top crust.

This yields 2 (10 inch) pie crusts