Grace's Kitchen: June 2012

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

French Apple Pie

This is my favorite baking--French Apple Pie.

This recipe adapter from Agnes Chang baking video.

Pastry：
200gm flour, sifted
100gm butter
60gm castor sugar, sifted
1pc egg yolk

Filling：
70gm butter
40gm castor sugar
1pc egg
70gm ground almond
20gm flour, sifted
3 pcs green apple, cut into pieces
2tsp marmalade

Directions：
1. Pastry
a. Mix flour and butter.
b. Add sifted castor sugar, continue mixing.
c. Add egg yolk and mix.
d. If failed to become dough, add a teaspoon of egg yolk and continue mixing. Repeat this step until it become dough.DO NOT add water into dough.
e. Cut the dough into pieces, put into model.
2. Filling
a. Mix butter and castor sugar.
b. Add egg, mix well.
c. Add ground almond and flour, continue to mix until the filling become“drop consistently”.
3. Pour the filling into the pie model (with pastry covered). Green apple put on top of the filling.
4. Bake for180°C, 35 – 40minutes.
5. Apply marmalade on the baked pie.