Challenge #1: Apples!

[miss_s_b]

This week's challenge is to make something using apples. It could be pork with apple sauce or baked apples or apple chutney or anything you like.

I decided to go trad and make apple pie:

I haven't used exact measurements because I didn't use exact measurements when making this. Basically, "some apples" means enough apples to fill your pie dish once they've been peeled and cored and sliced, and you're going to know how much that is for your pie dish, and "some sugar" recognises that some people like these things very tart and some like them very sweet. I used about a teaspoon of cinnamon because I like how cinnamon and apples interact, but YMMV. Anyway...

Equipment:

Oven
pie dish
Apple peeler/corer/slicer - best gadget EVER!
knife
wooden spoon
rolling pin
large flat surface
saucepan
Pastry brush

Ingredients:

a 500g pack of JusRoll shortcrust pastry (because I am a cheat)
Some plain flour for dusting your surface
Some apples
Some brown sugar
Some cinnamon
A bit of milk

Method:

Put the oven on to preheat according to the instructions on the pastry - mine is a fan oven, so it was 180^o centigrade.
Process the apples through the corer/peeler/slicer and roughly chop them into the pan.
Pour on the sugar and the cinnamon to taste.
Put on a low heat for ten to fifteen minutes, stirring every so often with your wooden spoon until the apples start to soften and the sugar and cinnamon can be mixed in and aren't bitty.
While the apples are warming, flour the rolling pin and surface, then roll out the pastry so it is nice and thin.
Line the bottom of the pie dish with half the pastry, making sure you have a bit hanging over.
When the apples are ready, dump them into the middle of the pie dish then spread them out with your wooden spoon.
Put the rest of the pastry over the top and squidge the edges together with your fingers.
Use the knife to prick a couple of steam holes in the top.
Brush the milk over the top and scatter over a bit more brown sugar.
Chuck in the oven.
Take it out when the top is nice and brown.
Eat.

I haven't sorted out how I'm going to do photo hosting on here yet, but I put a picture up on G+: https://plus.google.com/107327840945769637479/posts/WCibKprTMj6

And now it's your turn :)

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[el_staplador]

I made Polish pancakes with apple filling. I'll post the recipe some time...