United States
Apple hand pies
All the apple pie, none of the plates. Built for walking around with.
75 minTime
4 gProtein each
mildSpice
Pie you can carry2 chapters · 1 min readMake it your way
Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.
The original327kcal
4 gprotein
2 gfibre
75minutes
Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.
Ingredients
Method
6 steps- 1Rub the butter into the maida, 1 tbsp sugar and salt until pea sized, add ice water and press into a disc. Chill.
- 2Cook the apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and lemon in a pan until just tender. Stir in the cornflour slurry and cook a minute until thick. Cool completely.
- 3Heat the oven to 200 C. Roll the pastry 3 mm thick and cut 16 rectangles.
- 4Spoon filling onto 8 of them, brush the edges with egg, top with the rest and crimp with a fork. Cut two small vents.
- 5Chill 10 minutes, brush with egg and sprinkle with sugar.
- 6Bake until deep golden, then cool 15 minutes before eating; the filling is very hot.
Serve it like this
Serve warm on parchment, one broken open to show the apple filling.
