Recipe: Making Baking As Easy As Apple Pie

December 11, 2010 • 6:00 am PST
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For cooks who really need a visual on what it looks like to roll out a pie dough and don't have a poly-bagged, butter-proofed iPad in their kitchen yet, Jane Horby's What to Cook and How to Cook It spells out 100 simple, easy-to-follow recipes with clear, sequential photographs. I'd recommend it for any cook who want to make something as simple as apple pie.

Here's what you'll need:

Apple pie

1 tbsp flour, plus extra for rolling out

2 quantities basic pie crust, or 12 (14-oz) packages store-bought pie dough

1 organic lemon

3 ¼ lb apples, such as Granny Smith, Rome, Jonagold or Golden Delicious

1/3 cup fine sugar, plus 1 tbsp

1tsp ground cinnamon

1 large egg

ice cream or whipped cream, to serve (optional)

Pie crust:

1 large egg

scant 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling

1 stick ( ½ cup) cold unsalted butter

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