Apple of my Pie

Now heres an apple pie recipe that you'll love. Its easy, does not demand too many ingredients and it looks and tastes so impressive that your friends and family will love you for it.

I don't really have a sweet tooth but I'll eat this apple pie any-day. The aroma that emanates from the oven when the pie is almost done is so inviting that my mouth starts to water. Once I even burnt my tongue because I couldn't wait for it to cool down! Tongue burnt, lesson learnt!

It is quite a forgiving recipe in the sense that you can adjust the butter and sugar according to your taste or if you plus/minus an apple, it will still be good.

Ingredients:

1 recipe pastry for a 8 inch crust pie

75 g unsalted butter

15 g all-purpose flour

30 ml water

50 g white sugar

60 g packed brown sugar

Pinch of Cinnamon powder (or not if you don't like)

4 Apples - peeled, cored and sliced

Yields 1 - 8 inch pie

Directions:

Preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
Melt the butter in a saucepan.
Stir in flour to form a paste.
Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil.
Reduce temperature and let simmer for 2 minutes.

Line the baking pan with the pastry.
Fill with apples coated with cinnamon powder, mounded slightly.
Cover with a lattice work crust.
Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust.
Pour slowly so that it does not run off.

Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven.
Reduce the temperature to 175 degrees C. Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft and pie gets a warm brown colour.

Now heres what I don't like about this pie. Cutting it into neat wedges can be slightly tricky because its a crumbly pie, it crumbles! The trick is to not make any sawing movement, just apply full pressure and cut it in one swift motion.