Pie
Description
The recipe won't take much time. If you've tried baking all the known apple pies, but haven't tried this pie “Apples on Snow,” I wholeheartedly recommend you do so. The pie is extraordinarily good, easy to make, with an exquisite flavor. Watch the step-by-step recipe and cook with pleasure; your family will appreciate your efforts.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Add salt, sugar, and baking powder to the sifted flour, and mix.
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Step 3
Add the chilled butter, cut into cubes, to the flour.
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Step 4
Rub the butter with the flour into crumbs, add ice water and 1 tsp lemon juice, and replace the dough.
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Step 5
Place the dough in a bag and let it rest for 30 minutes in the refrigerator.
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Step 6
Peel the apples and cut them into large wedges, drizzle with lemon juice so they don’t darken.
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Step 7
Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the apples.
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Step 8
Prepare the topping by mixing sour cream, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of starch, and add a packet of vanilla sugar.
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Step 9
You can add 1 tablespoon of rum for aroma and flavor; the ingredient is optional, but it will give the glaze an exquisite taste.
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Step 10
Place the dough in the pan, (in this recipe a 20 cm diameter pan was used). Do not grease the pan, as the dough is butter‑based. Form high edges and prick the bottom with a fork.
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Step 11
Arrange the apple wedges in the dish.
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Step 12
Pour the sour cream topping.
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Step 13
Bake the pie for 50 minutes at 180 °C, monitoring the oven and the pie’s doneness, depending on how your oven performs.
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Step 14
Cool the pie to room temperature, then remove it from the pan.
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Step 15
Before serving, dust the cake with powdered sugar.
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Step 16
The pie turned out simply extraordinary, with a crumbly shortcrust pastry, a delicate vanilla flavor of the filling combined with the taste of apples. Not a pie, but bliss!