I did not make a pie on Pi Day.
It was Selection Sunday and the hardest thing I did was bake a brie so we could dip French bread into it.
Also, LET'S GO RUTGERS!!
A couple of my kids however, were indignant at the prospect of no pie. So today I baked a pie, using whatever I had in the house. Five apples and half a can of whole berry cranberry sauce. It is REALLY good.
Ingredients
Pie Crust
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup butter
a pinch of salt
1/3 cup ice water
Filling
5-6 apples, peeled and sliced (should be Granny Smith, but all I had was Fuji. So that's what I used. Also, some apple got eaten. So my filling wasn't the volume it should have been. Cut extra apples if your kids, like mine, are hovering around.)
1/2 can cranberry sauce (whole berry! not the jellied stuff)
lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cap of vanilla
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup water
cornstarch
Directions
To make the pie crust
Mix flour and salt in a large bowl
Cut cold butter into chunks, rub into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs
Add water a little bit at a time, until dough just sticks together
Divide dough it half, wrap it up and chill for an hour.
To make the filling
Toss apple slices in a tsp of lemon juice
(I just wiggle the lemon juice bottle over the slices.The lemon is just to keep the apples from browning.)
Add apples to brown sugar and water on medium heat.
Stir until sugar is melted.
Add vanilla and cinnamon.
Once apples are soft, add cranberry sauce
Add about a tsp of cornstarch and stir until filling has thickened.
(Note on cornstarch: add it to a bit of water and mix, THEN add to filling. Adding the cornstarch directly could cause those gross lumps)
Take filling off heat and cool.
Roll one half of dough out on a floured surface to make bottom crust.
(I have a non stick dough sheet. I love it. I cheat and sort of "flip" my crust into the pie tin. I don't have to pick the crust up, ever.)
Add cooled filling. Make sure filling is cooled! Use the fridge! Otherwise the butter in your dough will start to melt.
Roll out second half of dough for top of pie.
Cut designs/vent holes.
Use crust trimmings for decorations
Bake until golden brown, about 35-40 minutes. (Watch the edges. I did not do that today and you'll see they got "caught". )
DID THEY EAT IT? ❤️ out of ❤️
I mean, technically a winner? It is really yummy. The only kid that actually took a piece (the 14 year old) loved it. The kids that ASKED ME TO MAKE PIE said they'd have some tomorrow. I just...why, kids. Why.
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