Nov 29 2008
Cheap Eats: Easy as Apple Pie
Ok, I don’t know who came up with that phrase, but it sure is true. For the first time, I made a homemade apple pie this year and it was so simple I don’t think I will ever buy a pre-made one again. Now let me clarify one thing, I did not make the crust. I bought that, but now that I know how easy the pie is, I might try a crust. Maybe.
You need about 8 cups of apples, peeled and sliced, so I would estimate, about 6 - 8 apples. Mix the apple slices with 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour and 1 1/2 tsp. apple pie spice (cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice).
Put everything in one pie shell, then moisten the edges and put your second pie shell on top. Cut a few slits in the top, put it on a cookie sheet and bake at 325 for about 50 minutes.
It is seriously that easy. The pie shells cost less than $2 and you can usually find apples for about $1 pound. So way cheaper than anything you could buy and way tastier.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and now it’s on to my favorite, the holiday baking season!!
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With ready to roll chilled ready-made pastry, you can fit whatever pie dish you have or make a ‘tart tatin’ with the apples sliced and neatly arranged in circles, in the bottom of a round dish with some sugar and cinnamon, a round of puff pastry on the top and brushed with butter. Bake and turn upside down to serve.
I occasionally use pie shells for savoury tarts and quiches, but never for double crust sweet pies as the pastry is made with cheap vegetable fat which doesn’t have a good flavour. In the UK we can also get pastry mix in a pack, ready to mix with water, egg or what you will.
However, if you have a food processor, making pastry is the work of seconds!