Traditinal apple pie

Traditional apple pie  

Sheet

Ingredients

130 g. olive oil

125 g. margarine very cold from the freezer

1 sachet of dry yeast

1/2 cup of lukewarm water

1 egg

125 g. sheep yogurt

150 g. milk or kefir

250 g. self rising flour

500 g. all-purpose flour

500 g. flour or cornmeal to open the sheet

Instructions

How to make the dough

Put the yeast in a cup of lukewarm water and dissolve it.

Put in a large bowl the oil.

Grate in the bowl the cold margarine with a tomato grater.

Mix with a fork these two ingredients.

Add into the bowl the dissolved yeast and mix with the fork again.

Beat the egg lightly and add it into the bowl.

Stir with the fork and pour in the yogurt and milk or kefir.

Add the flour.

Knead well. If the dough sticks to hands add flour. 

If the dough is hard, add a little oil or a little water or a little milk to soften it.

Cover the bowl with a clean fluffy towel and leave it in a warm place.

This dough is sufficient for a big pie in a pan with dimensions in cm 31CH41CH5 or two pies in round pan with a diameter of 28 cm.

How to make the sheet

For one circular pie you need only half of the dough.

Take half the dough and divide it in two half’s.

Take one piece and with your hands give it a round shape.

Oile and flour a nonstick pan, 28 cm in diameter.

Put the circular piece of dough into the pan and open it with your hands.

Your sheet should be big enough to cover the bottom and the sides of the pan.

The sheet must not be very thick.

If it seems to you too thick, remove some dough.

Spread the sheet over and inevitably it becomes thinner.

Place the pan in the preheated oven and cook the sheet for 15 min at 180 C degrees.

Remove the pan from the oven and let it cool.

The filling of the traditional apple pie

Ingredients

4 large apples

150 g. raisins purified from stems

200 g. chopped walnuts

10g. grated cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg

1 teaspoon of grated clove

150 g. jam of some fruit

(If you don’t have jam use100 gr. brown sugar)

Instructions

Scour apples from their skins.
Cut them in small pieces and place them in a bowl.

Wash the raisins and strain them.
Wash the nuts. Dry those with paper towel and chop them in a food processor.
Put in the bowl with the apples the raisins, the nuts, the spices and the jam.
Mix well these ingredients.

How to asseble the pie

Spread the filling evenly over the sheet on the bottom of the pan.

Open the other half of dough into a sheet the size of the pan, with a rolling pin.

Cover the pie with that sheet.

Smear the top of the pie with margarine.

Use a toothpick to make several small holes on the pie.

Garnish the pie with plants and flowers you make from dough.

If you do not want to decorate the pie, simply engrave it intermittently with a sharp knife.

Put the pie in the oven on the first rack from the bottom.

Bake at 150 C degrees for 30 min and at 180 C degrees for another 30 minutes.

When the pie is ready it has a light brown color and smells very nicely.

Remove it from the oven and let it cool a bit before serving it.