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Apple Pie Recipe

Apple Pie Recipe
This Thanksgiving, enrich your life with the best tasting and easiest to make apple pie recipe on the internet. After all, nothing is quite as American as apple pie except, perhaps, Thanksgiving (a large apology to the 4th of July, Memorial Day and National Talk Like a Pirate Day). And perhaps that is why you can't celebrate Thanksgiving without giving thanks to apple pie, by consuming large quantities.

However, before you can gorge yourself, you must first acquire apple pie. An easy way to do this is to go the store and buy some. A better way is to make it yourself. For starters, it tastes better when you make it yourself (especially when you use the best tasting recipe on the internet). It uses a handful of cheap readily available ingredients. Most importantly, it's easier to make than you might think and can be done relatively quickly. It is hands down one of the most rewarding, and tasty, things I know how to make.

This pie has won a blue ribbon at the Inaugural Instructables Pre-Thanksgiving Luncheon.
 
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Step 1Go get stuff

Go get stuff
Stuff you will need...

For the crust:
2 cups flours
2 sticks cold butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup ice water

For the filling:
6 assorted apples (I used Rome, Granny Smith, Fuji and some mystery apple from Washington)
1 Tablespoon of flour
About a teaspoon of cinnamon
1 tablespoon (real) maple syrup
1 tablespoon of butter
2 tea spoons of fresh lemon juice
(1/2 a teaspoon of grated lemon peel)

For the topping:
1/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour plus a little
1 stick cold butter
a pinch of cinnamon

Tools:
Pie tin
2-3 mixing bowls
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Forks, spoons, butter knives
Mixing Spoons
Cutting knives
Pastry blender
Rolling pin
Colander
Grater
Aluminum foil
Plastic wrap
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31 comments
Jul 13, 2011. 9:31 AMwaldosan says:
that.... is.... AMAZING! i totally have to make this!
Nov 8, 2010. 6:53 PMTrinityMacPhisto says:
We don't have maple syrup over here, is there something else I could use in its place?
Nov 20, 2010. 10:12 PMYerboogieman says:
:-)

Although, I am making this again this year.
Nov 10, 2010. 12:49 PMTrinityMacPhisto says:
Brasil :)
Sep 7, 2010. 4:45 PMseltzer10 says:
You must first invent the universe.
Oct 16, 2010. 5:10 AMsquirrelMLM says:
Haha Carl Sagan reference FTW!
Dec 24, 2009. 1:02 PMYerboogieman says:
It really is an amazing tasting pie. Pie is amazing.
Nov 26, 2009. 9:07 AMJellyWoo says:
 holiday hit!
Nov 2, 2009. 10:05 AMwenpherd says:
that looks really good!
Nov 26, 2008. 7:39 PMYerboogieman says:
My dad was wondering if you screwed up when you made this, he said he's never heard of an apple pie without peeled apples.
Dec 4, 2008. 4:29 PMJellyWoo says:
what's wrong with the peels? they're healthy and turn soft when you bake the pie.
Dec 5, 2008. 6:19 AMYerboogieman says:
no, they're not. they get stuck in your teeth, and it sucks.
Dec 5, 2008. 12:39 PMJellyWoo says:
introducing...drum roll please......TOOTHPICKS! *gasp*
Nov 1, 2009. 1:53 PMYerboogieman says:
And they get stuck in your throat.
Nov 1, 2009. 2:06 PMJellyWoo says:
not really
Nov 1, 2009. 2:32 PMYerboogieman says:
Yes. They do.
Feb 21, 2009. 7:09 PMReCreate says:
wow that looks amazingly awesome when i get the ingredients i will make this
Dec 4, 2008. 4:29 PMJellyWoo says:
great instructable! i've made a similar pie and it tastes great.
Nov 23, 2008. 4:15 PMYerboogieman says:
to make this instructable better, you should probably put "skip to step 'blah' for the filling" and such.
Nov 7, 2008. 9:43 AMLithium Rain says:
Yummy! But I was a little worried after reading this, are there really rolly-pollies in it??
Nov 7, 2008. 11:51 AMLithium Rain says:
Blech! >_< My little brother ate 5 rolly-pollies once, when he was really little. Someone bribed him with candy.
Nov 6, 2008. 10:15 AMgmjhowe says:
apple pie! yes yes yes! this is my favorate food ible hq ible so far! Great work! NOM NOM NOM
Nov 6, 2008. 10:18 AMgmjhowe says:
*Reaches for 'feature' button, realises lack of featuring power- sighs* Its that good, that not only do i want to make it, it deserves featuring, though i'm guessing one of the -ible minions will find it!
Nov 6, 2008. 1:15 PMbumpus says:
Haha, nice plug Jake. :D
Nov 6, 2008. 1:55 PMgmjhowe says:
?
Nov 6, 2008. 8:12 PMbumpus says:
*Reaches for 'feature' button, realizes lack of featuring power- sighs*
:D
Nov 6, 2008. 11:59 PMgmjhowe says:
ITS APPLE PIE! apple pie is the best.
Nov 6, 2008. 4:33 PMchalky says:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm you had me at pie:)

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