Apple Pie With Apricot Jam Recipe
Apple Pie is an amazingly delicious dessert which you will enjoy with your family and friends. If you loved it, do share it with your friends also!
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
10 tablespoons butter
1 egg yolk
Grated rind of 1 lemon
1 pound cooking apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1/4 cup raisins
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons apricot jam
Directions
In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar and salt.
Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender or 2 knives until it resembles coarse meal.
Add the egg yolk and lemon rind and knead the mixture together into a ball.
Wrap in waxed paper and chill 1 hour.
Roll the dough out on a floured board to a 1/4 inch thickness.
Line the bottom and sides of a buttered 9 inch pie or cake tin that has a removable bottom with the pastry.
Arrange the apples and raisins on the pastry and sprinkle with the cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar.
Beat the eggs with the milk and remaining sugar and pour over the apples.
Bake the pie in a preheated 375° oven about 50 minutes.
Let the pie cool in the tin.
Unmold and spread the top of the pie with a thin layer of apricoit jam.
Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender or 2 knives until it resembles coarse meal.
Add the egg yolk and lemon rind and knead the mixture together into a ball.
Wrap in waxed paper and chill 1 hour.
Roll the dough out on a floured board to a 1/4 inch thickness.
Line the bottom and sides of a buttered 9 inch pie or cake tin that has a removable bottom with the pastry.
Arrange the apples and raisins on the pastry and sprinkle with the cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar.
Beat the eggs with the milk and remaining sugar and pour over the apples.
Bake the pie in a preheated 375° oven about 50 minutes.
Let the pie cool in the tin.
Unmold and spread the top of the pie with a thin layer of apricoit jam.
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