Argentine Recipes

Apple pie

Components:

Time:
1/2 kilo of flour
Butter, 3/4 of bread
Salt, a teaspoon
Chilly water, one cup

Stuffed:
3 or 4 inexperienced apples
1/2 cup of sugar
Cinnamon
Butter, 2 or 3 tablespoons
One egg yolk (non-compulsory)

Preparation of the dough:
Combine the flour, salt and really chilly butter together with your fingertips till you acquire a mix with the feel of coarse sand. Add chilly water by tablespoons till the dough comes collectively however don’t work an excessive amount of. Place within the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap. Go away it within the fridge whilst you peel the apples.

Preparation of the cake:
Peel the apples, take away seeds and core, and minimize into skinny slices.
Divide the dough in half. Stretch to a thickness of half a cm. with a stick one of many halves and place in a buttered and floured pie dish. Don’t work the dough an excessive amount of in order that it doesn’t warmth up.
Place a layer of apple slices. Sprinkle with two or three tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon (you may as well add a bit nutmeg) and sprinkle with items of butter.
Repeat 4 or 5 layers of apple, sugar, cinnamon and items of butter.
Stretch the remaining dough, cowl the pie plate. Make a repulgue on the sting and, with a knife, make three or 4 cuts within the dough lid to permit the steam to flee.
If you’d like, you’ll be able to paint the highest with egg yolk.
Bake in a moderate-high oven for half an hour to forty-five minutes. Serve chilly or heat, with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.