Pippin Apple Pie with Hazelnut Crust

Name: Pippin Apple Pie with Hazelnut Crust
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps all purpose flour; 79 milliliters (packed) golden brown sugar; 2 kilograms Pippin or Granny Smith apples (about 6 large), peeled, cored, cut into 1/3-inch-thick slices (about 6 cups); 1 Tbsp (scant) ground cinnamon; 177 milliliters hazelnuts, toasted; 4 Tbsps (or more) ice water; 10 servings Milk; 1 teaspoons salt; 5 Tbsps frozen lard or solid vegetable shortening, cut into 1/2-inch cubes; 118 milliliters sugar; 2 Tbsps (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted; 10 servings Vanilla ice cream

Pippin Apple Pie with Hazelnut Crust might be just the American recipe you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains approximately 12g of protein, 30g of fat, and a total of 575 calories. This recipe covers 17% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 10. It works best as a dessert, and is done in roughly 45 minutes. A mixture of solid vegetable shortening, ice water, granny smith apples, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious.

Instructions

Blend flour and hazelnuts in processor until nuts are finely ground.

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Hazelnuts

All Purpose Flour

Nuts

Add brown sugar and salt; blend 20 seconds.

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Brown Sugar

Salt

Add butter and lard; using on/off turns, process until mixture resembles coarse meal.

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Butter

Lard

Transfer mixture to bowl.

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Bowl

Add 4 tablespoons ice water; stir until moist clumps form, adding more ice water by teaspoonfuls if dough is dry. Gather dough together; divide into 2 equal pieces. Form each into ball; flatten each into disk. Wrap each in plastic wrap and chill 1 hour.

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Water

Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 400°F. Toss apples, 1/2 cup sugar, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in large bowl.

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Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Apple

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

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Bowl

Oven

Roll out 1 dough disk on generously floured surface to 12-inch round, rotating crust often to prevent sticking. Generously flour 11- or 12-inch tart pan bottom. Slide tart pan bottom under dough round. Carefully slide dough round into 9-inch pie dish. Press crust onto bottom and up sides of dish; pinch and press to seal any cracks. Spoon filling into crust; drizzle with melted butter.

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Butter

Crust

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Roll

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Pie Form

Tart Form

Roll out second dough disk on generously floured surface to 13-inch round. Slide same floured tart pan bottom under dough round. Carefully allow dough round to slide off tart pan bottom onto pie filling; pinch to seal any cracks in crust. Press top crust and bottom crust together at edge. Fold edge under; crimp decoratively.

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Crust

Dough

Roll

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Tart Form

Cut X in center of top crust.

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Crust

Brush top crust lightly with milk.

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Crust

Milk

Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon sugar.

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Sugar

Transfer pie to rimmed baking sheet.

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Baking Sheet

Bake pie 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F.

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Oven

Bake pie 25 minutes. Cover crust edges with foil collar to prevent overbrowning; continue baking until crust is golden, apples are tender, and juices are bubbling thickly in center, about 20 minutes longer.

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Apple

Crust

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Oven

Aluminum Foil