Since I can't think about this
hurricane too much without having a baby panic attack, and since I
have no money and am unemployed, and since Kim Taylor told me that
she used to bake during storms, and since I have lots of baking
ingredients in my cupboard, and since Wendy Barrie posted a status
about baking and listening to Christmas music simply because she
could, I decided to make an apple pie from scratch.
Recipes I borrowed from:
Pie:
Crust:
Crust Design:
**Pre-baked pie**
My Official Recipe (because apparently
I'm not too bad at making up successful recipes. So that's awesome.):
Crust:
Followed the recipe exactly
(Gasp! That never happens.)
Filling:
½ C / 1 stick of butter
3 tbsp. Flour
¼ C water
½ C white sugar
½ C brown sugar
3 redish yellowish apples that I had in
my fridge, sliced
Directions:
Follow directions on the crust link. If
you don't have a rolling pin, just use a stemless wine glass
(obvi!!).
For the filling, turn on some Christmas music for effect. Then, melt the butter on a
sauce pan aka frying pan, add in flour (for those of us who are more
baked, make a rue). Once mixed in, add water, white sugar, and brown
sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly to save yourself the
scrubbing later. Get someone else to stir the sugary mixture for you
while you do the other steps before pouring or turn down heat to
simmer and wait until you put the apples in the crust to pour the
mixture. In the meantime, put the crust in a buttered/greased pan.
Place apples over bottom crust. Pour filling over apples. Now, in the
recipe in the link, she pours the sugary mixture over the crust, but
I didn't read that far in advanced, so I just poured it over the
apples. I think it will probs taste mostly the same. Pouring the
mixture will be heavy so either be super strong, or get someone else
to hold the other side of the pan with an oven mitt, or pour it into
a bowl or pyrex dish with a handle to make your life easier. Braid
the top of the pie over the apples. Make sure that you talk like your
favorite food network celebrity (obvi mine is Paula Dean ya'll!!)
while doing this part because only fancy people make fancy pie crusts
and really, when is the next time there's going to be a
hurricane that is going to give you enough time inside the house,
with baking therapy, to actually take the time to make a fancy pie
crust? I'm just saying. It doesn't happen as often as you'd think it
does. Next step, is to forget to line the bottom of the oven with
foil, have the pie boil over, and fill the entire apartment with
smoke. Now, this step is ABSOLUTELY KEY in creating the perfect pie
and pie experience.
The last thing you absolutely MUST do
is accidentally make butter out of cream when you're trying to make
whipped cream.
If you follow all of these steps
exactly as described, you will have the best apple pie you have EVER
home made.
Note: Definitely make the braided fancy
crust bc it was a tiny bit runny and a full crust won't allow
anything to steam off, but it wasn't runny runny, it was like,
delicious goopy runny that you can scrape off your plate with a
fork...or another piece of pie.
ENJOY!
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