🥧 Apple pie
Apple pie is a baked pastry case of flaky butter crust filled with sliced apples, sugar and cinnamon, usually closed with a top crust or a lattice. As it bakes, the apples soften and release juices that thicken into a glossy, spiced filling. It is served warm or at room temperature, cut into wedges.
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What it is made of
Recipe
Ingredients
- 300 g plain flour
- 200 g cold butter, diced
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6–8 tbsp ice-cold water
- 1.2 kg apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- 120 g sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
Method
- Rub the butter into the flour and salt until it looks like coarse crumbs, then add just enough cold water to bring it together. Divide in two, wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Toss the apples with the sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice and 1 tbsp of flour from the measured amount.
- Heat the oven to 200 °C. Roll out one half of the pastry and line a 23 cm pie dish. Pile in the apples.
- Roll out the second half, cover the pie, crimp the edges and cut a few slits in the top.
- Bake for 20 minutes, then lower to 180 °C and bake 30–35 minutes more until golden and bubbling. Cool for at least an hour before slicing.
How to make it lighter
- A 125 g slice is about 310 kcal; most of the fat sits in the crust.
- Make an open pie or a lattice top instead of a full lid — less pastry, fewer calories per slice.
- Cut 10 slices instead of 8 from the same pie, and serve with fresh apple slices on the side.
History
English recipes for apple pies go back to the late Middle Ages; a recipe in the 14th-century cookbook The Forme of Cury is often cited as one of the earliest. Settlers brought the dish to North America, where apple orchards spread widely. By the 20th century the phrase 'as American as apple pie' had made it a national symbol of the United States.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →