Apples are a current tumble ingredient. Bask in them in a savory pie that will get a tart twist from cranberries.
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Crust
- 2 1/4 c. all-aim flour
- 2 tsp. sugar
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 c. frigid unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp. frigid unsalted butter
- 1/4 c. vegetable shortening
- 7 tbsp. iced water
Filling
- 1/2 c. granulated sugar
- 1/4 c. packed brown sugar
- 3 tbsp. all-aim flour
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. grated nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3 lb. baking apples
- 1/2 c. dried cranberries
- 1 tbsp. contemporary lemon juice
- 2 tbsp. frigid unsalted butter
Directions
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- Step 1Crust: In a food processor, mix the flour, sugar, and salt. Add butter and shortening; pulse till the aggregate resembles meal, with items of butter the size of runt peas. Flip the aggregate right into a gigantic bowl. Add 4 tablespoons of the water and toss with a fork. Drizzle in 2 to 4 tablespoons of the last water, tossing with a fork, till the dough begins to clump collectively. Flip the dough out onto a flippantly floured surface and obtain right into a ball. Divide the dough into 2 items, one somewhat higher, and press each and every right into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap; refrigerate 2 hours or up to in a single day.
- Step 2Alter racks to decrease third of oven; warmth oven to 425°F. Butter the bottom and aspects of a 9-crawl pie plate.
- Step 3On a flippantly floured surface, roll the higher share of dough to a 13-crawl circle. Ease into the pie plate, gently pressing dough in opposition to the perimeters and bottom of the plate. Tidy edge, leaving 3/4-crawl overhang. Fold overhang under and press to design edge; refrigerate. Roll the last dough to an 11-crawl circle, and with 2- to some-crawl leaf-fashioned cookie cutters, in the good deal of out leaves. If desired, using the lend a hand of a paring knife, hint lines to design veins. Procure scraps and re-roll to design more leaves if desired. Switch leaves to a plate and refrigerate.
- Step 4Filling: In a gigantic bowl, mix the sugars, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Add sliced apples, cranberries, and lemon juice; toss well to coat with sugar mixture. Flip filling into pie plate, arranging apples to in the good deal of areas between slices, and dot with butter. Brush edge of dough flippantly with water and arrange leaves, initiating some at the threshold, randomly over apple mixture, overlapping somewhat and pressing flippantly.
- Step 5Bake Quarter-hour. Cut oven temperature to 375°F and bake 25 minutes. Duvet edge of crust with foil and whisk a sheet of foil onto rack under pie to purchase any drips; bake 25 to Half-hour longer, till crust is browned and juices bear thickened and bubble at edge. Switch pie plate to a wire rack; frosty entirely.
