AMERICAN APPLE PIE

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE PASTRY

• 3 + ½ cups plain flour , plus extra for dusting
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 200 g unsalted butter , chilled and cut into cubes
• 1 large egg
• 80 ml icing water

FOR THE FILLING

• 5 apples , peeled, cored and halved, diced
• 1 lemon , juice and zest of
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
• 1/4 teaspoon clove powder
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder
• 2 tablespoons corn starch

• vanilla ice cream , optional, to serve

DIRECTIONS

1) Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.

2) First mix the flour with the sugar and the salt in a big bowl.
3) Second, use your fingertips to gently work the cubes of butter into the flour and sugar until the mixture
looks like breadcrumbs.
4) Add the egg and pour the water to the main mixture and gently work it together until you have a ball of
pastry dough.
5) Don’t work it too much at this stage – you want to keep it crumbly and short. Cut the dough in half, then
wrap it in film and put it into the fridge to rest for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
6) Meanwhile, peel your apples. Cut them into small parts.
7) Put them into a large bowl with the zest and juice of one lemon, the sugar and the spices. Mix the corn
starch to the filling, then put aside.
8) Roll each half of dough into a disc. Lay it on the baking tray. Put the apple filling in the pan. Place the
second disc of dough over the top. Press the edges together to form a seal.
9) Brush the surface of the dough with egg and then sprinkle with sugar. Pierce the top of the dough in
several places. Bake the pie for 40 minutes.
INGREDIENTS: match the pictures with the correct words.

apples – butter – cinnamon – clove – corn starch – eggs – flour –

ginger – lemon – nutmeg – salt – sugar – vanilla ice cream – water
UTENSILS: Number the pictures. 1 baking tray – 2 bowl – 3 cutting board – 4 knife – 5 measuring cup
– 6 measuring spoons – 7 mitten – 8 oven – 9 peeler – 10 rolling pin

DIRECTIONS: translate the actions

Dust Cut

Chill Wrap in film

Cut into cubes Put into the fridge

Peel Rest

Core Put into a large bowl

Halve Put aside

Dice Roll into a disc

Serve Lay on the baking tray

Pre-heat the oven Place

Mix Press the edges

Use your fingertips Brush the surface

Work Sprinkle with sugar

Look like Pierce the top

Add Bake the pie

Keep it crumbly and short