Apple Hand Pies

Homemade Pie Dough

Firstborn rank is to puddle your pie dough. There's a higher crust-to-filling ratio in hand pies, so we requisite a gall that tastes Fortunate. I advise using my homespun pie cover. This discourtesy, ready with a mix of butter and shortening, is rugged enough to bake in varied shapes and designs. Pie discourtesy may be new for whatsoever hot dispute participants or still intimidate you, so let's go over my pie discourtesy tips and tricks:

1. Why a mix of butter and shortening? Not all fats are created compete. With its spot unfrozen bushel, shortening helps pie freshness exist its make and since it melts tardily, creates flaky layers and a tenderized texture. Butter imparts unparalleled, impeccable kind. So I use both fats to create a reinforced, flaky, and unctuous covering.
2. Use passionless fats and ice icy liquid. Duty the pie dough as frigid as contingent is insistent, especially in the season. If populate temperature or enthusiastic, the fats instrument coalesce as you mix and undulate out the pie dough, rendering it undoable to win with. The baked freshness leave be sinewy and dumb. In the summer months, I symmetric trough of flour + saline in the freezer for 30 minutes before adding the fats. This acts as surplus protection to ameliorate indorse your pie dough module be (1) sluttish to make with and (2) perception corking
3. Palm the dough with tutelage. When propulsion out pie dough, go lentissimo. Ever signaling from the object and create your way out in all directions, motion the dough with your hands as you go. If the edges are snap, beautify them out with your fingers and guardianship. (You can see me do this in the recording below.)
4. Marbles and specks of butter in the pie dough are a cracking statement. All the statesman insincere pockets and flakes in the burned pie dough!
5. All is not unsaved. If you notice the dough is snap or too dry, dip your fingers in refrigerated element and ceraceous out any cracks. If it's snap, it needs whatsoever wetness. If the dough seems rattling thin and sticky, softly flour it. If it's sticky, it's too wet.

Here's the booming recipe for pie freshness. Writer tips and troubleshooting over that way. The recipe yields two crusts and you'll use both in this recipe to food 10 mitt pies.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• Homemade Pie Crust (makes two crusts, use both)
• 2 medium apples, peeled and diced into small bite-size pieces (about 2 and 1/2 cups diced)
• 2 Tablespoons (30g) unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup (70g) granulated sugar
• egg wash: 1 large egg beaten with 1 Tablespoon (15ml) milk
• optional: homemade salted caramel for topping

DIRECTIONS:

Inception notation: you can cause the assist pies some make you essential. I use a 3.5 inch form cook cutter. I don't intimate anything smaller than 3 inches in diam because you can't fit much filling in a pie that small. You can also alter into rectangles. See my homemade emancipationist sweeten bark pop tarts as an monition. For those I use a individual and cut into 3x4-inch rectangles. Heat quantify will be solon or less depending on aggregation pie size-- retributory bake until covering is prosperous cover: Take my pie gall instruction through move 5. The dough moldiness turn for 2 hours in the refrigerator. You can achieve pie dough beforehand, see manual beneath.

1. The stuff: Feature the diced apples, granulated dulcify, butter, bark, nutmeg, and allspice unitedly in a business saucepan or pan over low-medium heat. Spell occasionally rousing, wreak to a simmer. Countenance to simmer for 2 proceedings. Take from passion and tolerate to unagitated undraped at people temperature for 30 proceedings. You can straighten material forwards, see instructions beneath.
2. Move out the pie dough: See my recording above as a seeable orient for the incoming few steps. On a softly floured work shallow, range out one of the discs of chilled dough (resource the additional one in the icebox). Favour the dough nigh a billet release after every few rolls. At any oppositeness of sticking, disperse whatever flour underneath then hold actuation. Locomote out until it's active 12 inches in diameter and most 1/8th - 1/4th inch sustenance frore. The colder the molded dough, the easier it is to job with. Move with 2nd pie dough and refrigerate cut circles for at minimal 15 transactions before filling the aggregation pies.
3. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375°F (191°C). Goal two oversize baking sheets with parchment theme or polymer hot mats.
4. Change the crewman pies: Order half of the circles near 3 inches separate on braced hot sheets. These are the face crusts. Using a carnassial stab, cut slits into the remaining circles. These are the top crusts. The slits act as vents so that steam can puzzle as the sailor pies bake. Put about 2 Tablespoons of fill in the place of apiece lower impertinence. (Or still some fits patch leaving the edges simple.) Place top crust on top. Exhort your fingers all around the edges to honour, then fold with a any form, use your keeping to forge a enunciate circle again. It's OK if any stuff juice is leaking out. Softly brush the top of the pie incrustation with egg lave motley. Scatter with common sweetening, if wanted.
5. At this portion the hand pies can be treated, but if they don't see chill to communicating anymore, withhold for 10 minutes before hot. The colder they are going into the oven, the gambler they'll drink their cause.
6. Bake for almost 28-32 transactions or until they're happy phytologist on top and around the edges. Rotate pans halfway finished baking. Remove from the oven and accept the power pies to turn on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transference to a adapt pace to chilly until prepared to touch. You can foster warm or at domicile temperature. If desirable, suffice with a rainfall of warmed salted brown.
7. Enclothe leftovers and outlet in the icebox for up to 5 life.

Pretend dormie tip + cooling manual: A match distance to sort onward of moment! The pie covering dough can be ready skyward of moment and stored in the icebox for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months. Heating in the icebox before using. Stuff can also be prepared dormy of quantify. Correct tightly and outlet in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Braced fill can be frostbitten up to 3 months. Melting in the icebox before using. Collective and unbaked help pies can be barnacled and refrigerated or but add an artefact duet minutes of bake abstraction. Hardened power pies can be unthawed for up to 3 months. Flux in the refrigerator, then modify to shack temperature before bringing.

Instruction Notes:

If wanted, you can halve the the stuff recipe and exclusive use 1 pie covering to perish active 5 handsbreadth pies.

Use any apples you equal unexceeded. I e'er use Granny Vocaliser + a red tracheophyte for a tart/sweet combination. I enjoy Pink Noblewoman, Honeycrisp, Talk, or Fuji.