Buttery Apple Pie Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine apple butter, egg, sugar, flour and milk; mix well. Pour into the pie shell; sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake at 425° for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350°; bake 35 minutes more or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Store in the refrigerator.

Steps:

• Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and cook, swirling pan occasionally, until butter is golden brown and fragrant, about 8 minutes; let cool. Toss together apples and lemon juice in a large bowl. Combine flour, salt, granulated and brown sugars, and vanilla-bean seeds in another bowl, breaking up clumps and combining with a fork or fingers. Add browned butter to apples. Stir in flour mixture.
• Roll out 1 disk of dough to just under 1/4 inch thick on a lightly floured surface and fit into a 9-inch glass pie plate. Roll out remaining disk of dough to a 13-inch round. Rolled-out dough can be refrigerated up to 8 hours. (Be sure to let the 13-inch round sit at room temperature until pliable before topping pie, or it will break.) Place apples in pie shell, brush edges with water, and cover pie with top crust. Trim excess, leaving a 1-inch overhang. Fold top edge over bottom crust to seal, and crimp as desired. Cut steam vents in top crust. Freeze pie 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 425 degrees with rack in lowest position. Brush pie with egg wash and sprinkle with sanding sugar. Place a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet on floor of oven to catch any drips. Bake pie on lowest rack 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake until well browned, about 1 hour. Tent pie with foil and continue to bake until bubbling through vents, about 20 minutes more. Let cool completely on a wire rack, at least 6 hours. Pie can be made 1 day ahead and stored at room temperature.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide dough in fourths so that two portions are slightly larger than the other two; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle., In a large bowl, combine the apples, sugar, brown sugar, molasses, flour and spices., Roll out one larger portion of dough to fit a 9-in. pie plate. Transfer pastry to pie plate. Trim pastry even with edge. Spoon half of filling into crust. Repeat with remaining large portion of dough and filling., Roll out remaining pastry to fit tops of pies. Place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in pastry. Beat egg white and water; brush over pastry., Bake at 375° for 55-65 or until crust is golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Roll out the larger piece of dough to a 1/8-inch thickness and use it to line a deep 9-inch pie pan. Do not trim overhang yet. Roll the other piece between sheets of wax paper into a rectangle roughtly 12 inches long and 1/8-inch thick. Refrigerate shell and rolled dough for at least a half hour.
• Combine sugar, cinnamon and mace. Toss apples with rosewater, then with butter. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• Sprinkle a third of the sugar mixture over the bottom of the shell. Arrange a layer of apples on it and sprinkle with another third of the sugar. Add the remaining apples, rounded sides up, and sprinkle with the remaining sugar.
• Brush the rim of the pie with cream and return it to the refrigerator.
• Working quickly, peel wax paper from one side of the reserved sheet of dough, replace it lightly, flip dough and remove paper from the other side. Working on the wax paper, create a decorative open-work crust either by cutting 1/3-inch strips and weaving a lattice or by using a knife or cookie cutter to make a pattern that allows the apples to show. Stop and refrigerate if the dough starts to soften.
• Carefully flip top crust onto pie. Press around the edges to seal and trim overhang to a half-inch beyond rim. Fold it over the top crust edges and crimp up into a decorative rim.
• Bake the pie 10 minutes, reduce the heat to 375 and bake 50 minutes more, or until the apples are very tender and the crust is a rich brown. Allow to cool 10 to 15 minutes and serve while still warm.