My favorite Apple Pie recipe
 
 
Ingredients
For pie crust:
  • 2½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 6-8 tbsp ice cold water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • dash cinnamon (optional)
For the filling:
  • ½ cup unsalted butter
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • pinch nutmeg
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • 8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and thinly sliced
  • ½ cup toasted walnuts, crushed to tiny pieces
Instructions
  1. Dice or grate the butter and return it to the refrigerator while you prepare the flour mixture.
  2. Place the flour, salt, cinnamon (optional) and sugar in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade and pulse a few times to mix. Add the butter. Pulse 8 to 12 times, until the butter is the size of peas. You can also use a pastry cutter, if you do not have a food processor.
  3. With the machine running, pour the ice water and vanilla and pulse the machine until the dough begins to form a ball. Dump out on a floured board and roll into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  4. Cut the dough in half.
  5. Roll each piece on a well-floured board or between two parchment papers into a circle. Fold the dough in half, place in a pie pan, and unfold to fit the pan. Repeat with the top crust. If you want to make a lattice you could do it in advance and keep it in the fridge too. Keep rolled out dough in the refrigerator.
  6. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
  7. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer till a little thick. Remove from heat, and add the vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg. Leave 2 tbsp of the syrup in the pan and pour the rest on the apples.
  8. Place the bottom crust in your pan and fill it with a layer of the crush walnuts and then fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Brush the top crust with the reserved syrup. Put your pie dish on a tray, so that it can catch any drippings that happen.
  9. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft, and crust is golden.
Recipe by The Novice Housewife at https://novicehousewife.com/2016/11/11/apple-pie/