Recipe: All-American apple pie

Ingredients

• 475 g (1 lb 1 oz/3¾ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour, plus extra for dusting
• 100 g (3½ oz/heaped ¾ cup) icing (confectioner’s) sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 50 g (2 oz/scant ½ cup) finely ground hazelnuts
• 250 g (9 oz) butter, cold and cut into small cubes
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 tablespoon whole milk
• granulated sugar, to sprinkle
• 175 g (6 oz/⅓ cup) caster (superfine) sugar
• ¼ teaspoon allspice
• pinch of salt
• juice of ½ lemon
• 1 sharp, green eating (dessert) apple, such as Granny Smith, peeled, cored and sliced
• 1 sweet eating (dessert) apple, such as Gala, peeled, cored and sliced
• 2 cooking apples, such as Bramleys, peeled, cored and sliced
• a few drops of vanilla extract