Christmas Apple Pie

Name: Christmas Apple Pie
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: Pinch of sea salt; ½ cup plus 2 teaspoons (125 g) cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes, plus room-temperature butter for the dish; Vanilla ice cream, clotted cream, or Custard Sauce, for serving; 3½ tablespoons (50 g) unsalted butter, cut into small cubes; ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons (100 g) confectioners’ sugar; 2 cups (250 g) flour, plus more for the dish and the work surface; Grated zest of 1 lemon; 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon whole milk, for egg wash; ½ cup (100 g) Demerara sugar; 1¾ lb (800 g) cooking apples, peeled, cored, and cut into ¾-inch (2-cm) dice; 1 tablespoon water; 1 egg, lightly beaten

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Christmas Cookbook

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

A Christmas apple pie was included in Florence White’s Good Things in England, published in 1932. In her introduction to the recipe, which dates to the eighteenth century, she says it was traditional in and around Potton, Bedfordshire, to place a large apple pie on the table for the Christmas festivities. Called an apple florentine, it was made on a pewter or sometimes silver plate and was filled wit