Delicious Croatian Apple Pie Food

CROATIAN APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Make dough out of flour, breadcrumbs, and lemon rinds, sugar, baking powder, salt, and vanilla flavored sugar and melted butter.
• Mix everything in a bowl and at the end add egg yolks. Mix some more and add sour cream.
• Mix more until you get nice greasy dough. If it is too greasy you can add some more flour. When done, put into refrigerator for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, put the dough out and work a little to make it softer. Cut ¼ of the dough and put aside.
• During this, peal the apples and grate them in a bowl. Don't put sugar yet or apples will loose juice (put sugar last). During a day, assuming you have planned to make a pie, soak raisins in rum. When raisins get swelled put them into apples and add cinnamon. Be grateful with cinnamon. Now add sugar.
• Roll the rest of dough into ½ cm thin sheet. Cover the bottom of 28cm low rim cake pan with butter, and put onto it a dough sheet. Make sure that the rim is also covered with dough from inside.
• Pour apple stuffing on dough. Roll the rest of the dough into thin sheet and put over the apples making sure that it is covered.
• Poke 10 holes with a fork on the cover. Put the pie into preheated oven on 180°C and bake 30-40 minutes or until it gets light golden. Before serving sparkle with caster sugar.

DELICIOUS CROATIAN APPLE PIE

Steps:

• In a bowl combine the flour, butter, egg yolk, a splash of milk and sugar. Knead all ingredients to a firm dough. Chill for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare the topping dough: beat egg yolks with sugar until light and foamy. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Gently fold egg white mixture and flour alternately into the yolk mixture.
• Roll short-crust dough on a lightly floured counter to a rectangle the size of the parchment paper lined baking pan. Cover the bottom of the pan with the dough, tap with fingers into place.
• Evenly cover the dough with grated apples, sprinkle with brown sugar, lemon zest, ground cinnamon and rum.
• Top the apples with the light topping dough and bake the pie in the oven at 200°C for about 45 minutes.
• Cool the pie in the baking pan, cut into equal sized square pieces and dust with powdered sugar (optional).

MOM'S DELICIOUS APPLE PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Peel and slice apples.
• In large bowl mix apples well with cinnamon, sugar, and flour.
• Put 1 pie crust in the bottom of a pie plate (my mom always used a deep dish one).
• Cut up one stick of butter and place slices in the bottom of the pie plate.
• Pour apples on top of butter as high as you can (heaping the apples keeps them from baking down so much).
• Cut up the remaining stick of butter and place on top of apples.
• Stretch pie crust over the top of the heaping apples and pinch sides of pie crusts together.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and pierce a few times with a fork.
• Cover pie with foil.
• Place pie on a cookie sheet
• Bake on bottom rack for 30 minutes
• Unfoil top of pie but leave crust foiled for another 30 minutes or until done.
• Pie will still be heaping after it is done baking.

SCRUMPTIOUS APPLE PIE

Steps:

• .Heat oven to 375. Place pastry in a 9-inch deep dish pie pan and crimp the edges. In a large mixing bowl combine the sugar, flour, salt and cinnamon. Toss the apples with sugar mixture and pour into pie shell.
• Thoroughly combine crumb topping ingredients: The brown sugar, flour, quick oats and 1/2 cup butter. Sprinkle over apples in pie crust.
• Bake 20-30 minutes then cover with foil and bake another 20 minutes until apples are tender. Remove pie from oven and sprinkle on the pecans and drizzle the butterscotch and caramel sauce.
• Optional: You may toast your pecans in sauce pan with 1 Tablespoon of butter then put them on top of the pie.