Apple Pie | Appetites Personal Chef | Chicago

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup cold water
• 1 1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
• 4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour (1 lb, 2 oz)
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 lb unsalted butter sticks, chilled, cut into small cubes
• 8 medium red skinned baking apples, such as Gala, Fiji, or Honey Crisp, peeled, cored, and sliced thin
• approximately 3/4 cup granulated sugar (every apple is different – add sugar until your apples taste sweet, but you do want to keep a little tartness)
• lemon zest from 1 lemon
• juice from 1 fresh lemon
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon (reduce the cinnamon to 3/4 tsp if you are adding the pumpkin pie spices)
• 1/2 cup of heavy cream, or 3 egg whites, lightly beaten
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar for sprinkling