Sand Apple Pie

Shortbread apple pie is a crumbly sweet dough and pieces of sour apples ... A perfect duet! The pie evokes pleasant associations with distant childhood, when you were not a performer, but only a spectator in the kitchen of your mother or grandmother. Think of all their mesmerizingly beautiful dough manipulations and repeat (maybe even today!) Following our detailed instructions. Here's a little tip: For shortcrust apple pie, choose the finest sugar so that the dough is flawlessly smooth. Simple home-style, delicious home-style!

Ingredients

• large apples - 8 pcs.
• sugar - 200 g
• ground cinnamon - 1 tsp.
• water - 1 tbsp. l.
• butter - 170 g
• sugar - 150 g
• egg - 1 pc.
• yolk - 1 pc.
• flour - 250 g + a little more for rolling out the dough
• salt on the tip of a knife

Directions

1. Make a shortcrust apple pie batter. Cut the butter into 1 cm cubes, place in a bowl and leave at room temperature for 20-30 minutes to soften.
2. Beat the butter with a mixer. Then gradually add sugar to it and beat with a mixer until you get a smooth mass of the consistency of a light cream.
3. Add the egg and yolk to the buttery sweet mass (both at room temperature so that the butter does not curl). Beat thoroughly with a mixer.
4. Sift the flour with salt into the resulting butter-egg mixture. Knead the dough quickly with a mixer using a low speed. Shape into a ball, wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
5. Peel the apples and cut into small cubes. Place in a saucepan, add sugar and cinnamon. Pour in water and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Let cool and discard on a sieve to drain excess liquid.
6. Heat the oven to 175 ° C. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and roll it out on a lightly floured surface into a 3 mm thick layer. Transfer the dough to a baking sheet and prick with a fork.
7. Spread the previously prepared apple filling over the layer of dough, not reaching about 1 cm to the edges. Lift the edges of the dough and fold inward. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the shortbread apple pie 35-40 minutes until tender. Let cool on a baking sheet, then chop coarsely.