Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos
at September 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM. 
Temptation serpentines through the tablecloth.
The apple becomes pie and Heaven comes down to Earth...
Today we are Adam and Eve and again the forbidden fruit is desired as in the original sin.
Apple pie
Crust:
250 g wheat flour
1 tbsp baking powder
100 g sugar
125 g soft butter
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
Egg yolk to brush
Combine all the ingredients together.
Cover the dough with wrap film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and line a pie pan.
Roll out the remaining dough and cut small stripes to cover the pie.
Filling:
7 apples
300 g sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
1 cinnamon stick
Peel the apples and cut in thin slices.
Bring to boil the apple slices with sugar and lemon until they are transparent.
Put the apple slices in te pie shell.
Finish with the crossed dough stripes.
Brush with egg yolk.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Brush the pie with a light coating of apple jelly.
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