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Hello, everybody!

They say apples are the taste of fall! As for me, apples taste good in the winter too. I remember when I was a child, my grandmother used to send us a parcel of apples in the winter. The apples were grown in their orchard. I have a recipe in my notebook that I wrote down a long time ago. A lot of time has passed since then. The recipe is time-tested and relevant because it's delicious! This time I've changed the presentation of apple pie with meringue a little bit.

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Ingredients

For the tart

  • 200 g flour
  • 150g butter
  • 3 yolks
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • pinch of salt

For the filling

  • 5-6 apples (I had two varieties)
  • 1 tablespoon sugar and a little lemon juice

Meringue

  • 3 squirrels
  • 120g sugar

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Directions step by step

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Prepare the dough crust

1. Add flour, baking powder, salt, and diced cold butter to the bowl of a food processor. Beat until crumbly.

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Separate the eggs yolk and white.

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2. Add the egg yolks and mix until combined.

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3. Divide one-third of the dough and keep in the freezer for about 30 minutes. Put the rest of the dough in the refrigerator.

Prepare the apple filling.

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One kind of apples I grated on a grater. The other sort I cut into cubes.
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Then I mixed them together and added lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of sugar.
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Then I stewed them in a saucepan. I added 2 teaspoons of cornstarch. (This is optional.)
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Let the apples cool down.



4. Then roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface, line the baking dish with it, forming an edge on all sides. I prefer to do it by hand. Put it in the refrigerator.
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Meringue preparation.

5. Whisk the egg whites, gradually adding the sugar. Beat until a firm, glossy froth forms.

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Whites must be at room temperature for the sugar to dissolve into the meringue.

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Meringue should be very thick and glossy.
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Assemble the tart

6. On the pastry tart, add the apples.
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7. Spread meringue on top of the apples.
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8. On top of the meringue, grate coarse dough from the freezer
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9. Bake the pie at 180° for about 50-60 minutes. When the pie is ready, turn off the oven, ajar the door, and leave the pie inside for another 30 minutes.

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Help yourselves!

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Original photos by leylar@leylar

The photos were taken by OLYMPUS E-M1
Lens M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm 1:2.8 PRO

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