Paula's Apple Pie Filling

Name: Paula's Apple Pie Filling
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 7 mediums apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced; 3 Tbsps butter, diced; 12 Tbsps butter, cold and cubed; 8 servings Egg wash, for brushing; 59 milliliters all-purpose flour; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 3 Tbsps granulated white sugar; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling; 59 milliliters to 1/2 cup ice water; 1 lemon, zested and juiced; 177 milliliters light brown sugar; 8 servings Freshly ground nutmeg, to taste; 0 teaspoons fine salt; 8 servings Sugar, for sprinkling; 59 milliliters vegetable shortening, cold

Paula's Apple Pie Filling is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 11g of protein, 33g of fat, and a total of 701 calories. Head to the store and pick up apples, butter, flour, and a few other things to make it today. Several people really liked this dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours. It is a reasonably priced recipe for fans of American food. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Paula's Apple Pie Filling, Easy Homemade Apple Pie Filling, and Paula Deen Apple Pie.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

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Mix together the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small bowl. In another bowl, sprinkle apples with the juice and zest of 1 lemon and toss. Stir in the sugar mixture to evenly coat the apples.

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Lemon

Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Apple

Nutmeg

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Bowl

Set aside.

Roll out chilled dough into 2 circles and use 1 round to line a 9-inch pie pan. Chill the other round.

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Dough

Roll

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Pie Form

Mound the apple and sugar mixture into the pie pan lined with dough. Dot with the cubed butter.

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Butter

Apple

Dough

Sugar

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Pie Form

Using a pastry cutter, cut an even number of strips from the remaining rolled out dough.

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Dough

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Pastry Cutter

Transfer every other strip to the pie top and weave in the lattice by folding every other strip back onto itself and laying another strip perpendicularly. Fold the strips back across and repeat until completed.

Brush the top of the pie with egg wash and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Trim the overhanging dough and crimp edges.

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Cinnamon

Dough

Sugar

Egg

Bake the pie until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly, 50 to 60 minutes.

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Crust

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Oven

Let rest 20 minutes before slicing.

In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, salt and sugar.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Mixing Bowl

Add the shortening and break it up with your hands as you start to coat it all up with the flour.

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Shortening

All Purpose Flour

Add the cold butter cubes and work it into the flour with your hands or a pastry cutter. Work it quickly, so the butter doesn't get too soft, until the mixture is crumbly, like very coarse cornmeal.

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Cornmeal

Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Pastry Cutter

Add the ice water, a little at a time, until the mixture comes together forming a dough. Bring the dough together into a ball.

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Dough

When it comes together stop working it otherwise the dough will get over-worked and tough. Divide the dough in half and flatten it slightly to form a disk shape. Wrap each disk in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. On a floured surface roll each disk out into a 10 to 11-inch circle to make a 9-inch pie.

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