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homemade irishstyle apple & clove pie

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Recipe by
Racquel Sweeney
@racquelsweeney
Donegal

Every woman in Ireland knows her Mothers apple pie recipe, this recipe is passed down through generation after generation. I been making apple pie since I was ten years old helping my grandmother and my own mum in the kitchen, in some families it's a secret they would not tell any one outside the family. There is nothing nicer than walking into a traditional Irish kitchen and smelling the wonderful aroma of freshly baking apple pie. Except that is a slice of apple pie straight out of the oven with a dollop of freshly whipped cream. Hope you like and enjoy...and shooosh!! it's a secret.....

yield 6 serving(s)
prep time 15 Min
cook time 35 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For homemade irishstyle apple & clove pie

  • 200 g
    selfraising flour
  • 100 g
    cornflour
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 Tbsp
    icing sugar
  • 150 g
    butter
  • 4 Tbsp
    milk
  • FOR FILLING
  • 6 md
    ordinary eating apples(e.g i used gala irish apples or granny smiths whatever you have)
  • 1/4 c
    caster sugar
  • 1/2 tsp
    ground clove
  • 1 tsp
    water
  • FOR GLAZING
  • 1
    egg( with a pinch of salt in it)
  • sprinkle of caster sugar for top of apple pie

How To Make homemade irishstyle apple & clove pie

  • 1
    Pre-heat oven to 190c/375f, grease a 7inch pie tin.
  • 2
    Shift flour, cornflour, salt, and icing sugar into a bowl. Using your finger tips rub in butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs .
  • 3
    Add enough of milk to form a firm dough. knead slightly to smooth out the dough
  • 4
    Roll out half the dough on to a lightly floured surface and use to line the pie tin.
  • 5
    Place a sheet of greaseproof paper over pastry that is in the pie tin with baking beans to blind bake for 10 minutes. Once done set aside a prepare the apples.
  • 6
    Peel, core, and slice the apples and place into a pan, over medium heat with teaspoon of water. Mix together the ground cloves with the sugar ,add to the pan with apples . Cook the apples until they are soft, remove from heat.
  • 7
    Place the cooked apples into the baked pastry shell.
  • 8
    Roll out remaining dough, use it to cover the apple pie. Moistening the edges with the egg glaze to seal the lid. With a rolling pin lightly roll it over the edges of apple pie to trim off the ends.
  • 9
    The trimmings roll back up again and make a decoration for top of apple pie. I always make an apple with two leafs on either side just how I was shown by my Grandmother and my own Mother.
  • 10
    Cut a vent in the top of pie and brush with egg glaze and sprinkle with little caster. Place the apple pie into a pre-heated oven at 190c/375f for 25 minutes, until the pastry is golden.
  • 11
    Serve with Custard or ice-cream. My favourite is a dollop of plain old whipped fresh cream .
  • 12
    This is one of my apples trees down my back garden, i have three in total ,my husband planted two of them five years ago and an other one three years ago . One for each of my sons ,still have to plant one more for my fourth son he's still only a baby....anyway out of the three apple trees one tree only produce one apple this year compared to last year there was a good few apples on all three tree. This is it, i didn't have the heart to pick it.... PS. any gardeners among us that could tell me , why this has happened am so curious to find out.... :)
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