This is for a 10″ (24 cm) deep dish pie

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Ingredients

  • 3-4 lbs Apples (7-10) Granny Smith (very tart) or mixed half McIntosh (sweet) and Granny Smith, cored and sliced thin (1/4″)
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 3/4-1 cup sugar (3/4 for mixed or 1 for straight Granny Smith)
  • 2 tablespoon corn starch
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 4 tablespoons butter, cut into eight pieces
  • 1 egg, separated
  • 1 recipe Double crust pie dough

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Directions

  1. Toss apples with lemon juice.
  2. Fit bottom crust in pie plate.
  3. Dump in egg white and coat bottom crust with egg white–pitch egg white back into cup with egg yolk, set aside.
  4. Mix sugar, cornstarch, salt and cinnamon together and then toss with apples.
  5. Pile apples into prepared pie crust (should be heaping).
  6. Scatter butter pieces over top.
  7. Lay top crust over apples and crimp/flute edges.
  8. Cut center vent hole and four vent slits.
  9. Lightly scramble egg with 1 tablespoon water.
  10. Brush over top crust.
  11. Sprinkle with an additional 1 tablespoon sugar.
  12. Place pie plate on sheet of tin foil (73% chance of bubbling over and creating a vulcanized blob of cooked sugar on the bottom of your oven that will burn every time you use your oven for the next month) and into preheated 425 degree oven.
  13. Bake for 25 minutes.
  14.  Rotate pie 180 degrees, reduce temperature to 375 degrees and bake for another 30-35 minutes longer, until crust is golden and or apples are easily pierced with a chopstick.

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