Apple pie
I love cooking a nice apple pie, and this is my super-solid, go-to, classic recipe. Of course you can embrace other seasonal fruit, such as pears and quince.
Ingredients
- PASTRY
- 250g unsalted butter (cold), plus extra for greasing
- 350g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 tablespoon golden caster sugar
- FILLING
- 1.5kg apples (I like a mixture of Bramley, Russet, Braeburn, Cox and good old Granny Smith)
- 1 blood or regular orange
- 1 vanilla pod
- 100g dried cranberries
- 100g light brown muscovado sugar
- 1 good pinch of ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 25g unsalted butter
- TOPPING
- 1 large free-range egg
- 10g demerara sugar
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