Apple Pie

Name: Apple Pie
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 225 g/8 oz shortcrust pastry; 675 g/1½ lb cooking apples; castor or icing sugar; 1 tablespoon water; 15 g/½ oz butter; 100 g/4 oz soft brown sugar; 1 level tablespoons cornflour; ½ level teaspoon ground cinnamon; finely grated rind of ½ lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

About

A little cornflour mixed with the sugar in this recipe slightly thickens the juices that run from the apple filling. It makes the pie easier to serve and gives it a pleasant texture.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz shortcrust pastry
castor or icing sugar

Pastry
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Divide the pastry in two portions making one slightly larger than the other. Set the larger piece aside for the top of the pie. Roll the remaining pastry out to a circle large enough to line a greased 20- to 23-cm (<