Double-Crusted Apple Pie
Homemade apple pie is a warm, comforting dessert with a buttery, flaky crust and a perfectly spiced apple filling. It’s the classic treat that fills your kitchen with the irresistible scent of cinnamon.
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 small egg beaten
- 1/4 cup water
- 3 cups pared, cored, and sliced apples
- 3 tbsp flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp butter or margarine
- 3 tbsp milk
Instructions
- In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar and salt. With a pastry blender or fork, cut in soft butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Mix together egg and water, then add to flour mixture. Mix until dough is moist enough to form a ball.
- Divide dough in half. On a lightly floured surface, roll one half into a 12-inch circle. Press dough into pie plate, and crimp to form a decorative border.
- Set aside and make pie filling.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix apples, flour, sugar and cinnamon. Stir gently. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Dab with butter and pour milk over filling.
- Roll top crust, same as bottom, and lift onto filled pie or decorate with woven lattice top.
- Bake 40-45 minutes. Filling for one pie.