Mom's Butter-Crust Apple Pie

This is our favorite apple pie recipe!

Ingredients:

CRUST
(2 ½ cups) Pastry flour (loose)
(2) sticks unsalted butter (chopped & frozen for 1hr.)
(1) tablespoon sugar
(1) teaspoon salt
Ice water
(1) egg
9 inch aluminum pie tin

FILLING
(3) large York (or Green Golden Delicious or Granny Smith apples)
(1) cup sugar
(1) heaping tablespoon corn starch
Touch of salt
(1) teaspoon cinnamon

Directions:

CRUST

  • Combine flour, sugar, butter and salt in a food processor. Pulse until butter is chopped evenly and mixed into flour. Run food processor and slowly add 5 tablespoons of ice water. Don’t mix too long!
  • Form into a ball and chill in fridge for 2 hours.
  • Remove from fridge and let dough sit for 15 minutes to get to a workable temperature.
  • Flour the working surface, cut dough ball in half (bottom and top of pie), and form bottom half into a ball.
  • Roll one side, flip, add a little flour and roll other side. Don’t overwork dough!
  • Fold dough in half, lift and place into half of the pie tray. Unfold the entire bottom dough into pie tin. Patch any cracks on the bottom dough so that no apple juice leaks below the pie. Patch the bottom if too thin.
  • Roll out top dough the same size as the bottom.
  • Place both top and bottom dough in fridge while making the filling.

FILLING

  • Cut apple's into small chunks and remove peels.
  • Combine sugar, salt, cinnamon and corn starch in a bowl and pour into bowl of apples. Toss until all apples are coated with sugar mix.
  • Pour apples into the tin tray, on top of the bottom dough.
  • Gently lay top dough over the apples (using a board under the top dough). Don’t press!
  • From edge of pie tin, trim excess dough, leaving ¾ of an inch hanging over the tin.
  • Gently fold top crust under the bottom crust.
  • Pinch the dough all the way around the pie to make a design.
  • Cut small vents on the top of the pie.
  • Combine an egg and a small amount of sugar and mix. Gently paint egg mix on top of pie, not letting it pool up anywhere.

Bake for one hour at 375 – 400 degrees.

Courtesy of Mom's Apple Pie Company in Virginia.
http://www.momsapplepieco.com