Granny’s Devilish Dutch Apple Pie
Granny's famous devilish apple pie isn't one to write an informative story about. You just have to taste a bite and you'll never go back to normal apple pies. Granny's game time, a Dutch original pie recipe with many flavourful herbs brought to the Netherlands by the VOC from countries suchs as Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Malakka, Maleisia and Thailand.
This unique spiced apple pie recipe is one to set your mind on for a cold winter evening. Just like a German apfel-strudel this delicious can be combined with caramel, pistachio, pastry cream or vanilla icecream, some whip cream or a combination.
Another fruity variation on this recipe is the
herbal, fruit & raisin sludge.
Blend 2 pine-apple rings, a piece of pumpkin
50 grams of raisins, some sugar and vanilla sugar, 3 star anise, 2 cinnamon sticks and about 15 cloves crushed into a mixer and blend it smooth till it gets nice and brown.
Too make your recipe extra fresh you can add lemon grass or lemon kaffir leafs.
Chop them up finely and sprinkle over your apple mixture with a pinch of sea salt flakes.
Our lemon grass is grown in an old lady's sneaker sock...
- 1000 g apple
- 350 g wheat flour
- 200 g soft butter
- 100 g raisins
- 100 g sugar
- 20 g ginger
- 15 g kaffir/lime leaves
- 1 lemon
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 2 tbsp warm water
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp salt
- 6 cloves
- 4 cardemom
- 2 star anise
- 1 g baking powder
- 200 ml whipped cream
- Ice cream
- 1 1. Preparing the raisins by soaking them over night. Grind the cloves, cardemom, star anise, kaffir leaves and grate the ginger in a small bowl. Add warm water, a tablespoon of honey, a drizzle of dark rum and stir well. Add the raisins to this mixture and let them soak for a maximum of 12 hours.
2. Peel the apples and cut them in to slices In a bowl. Add 50 gr. sugar, 1 table spoons of cinnamon and squeeze the lemon on the apples and mix the content of the bowl with the raisins and let te mix rest in the fridge while.
3. In another bowl mix 350 gr. of wheat flower, 50 gr. sugar, 1 gr. baking powder, 200 gr. soft butter, 2 teaspoons of salt, one tablespoon of cinnamon. Grate some of the lemon zest, add a squeeze of lemon juice and an egg. Mix and kneed the dough well and let it rest in the fridge for an hour.
4. Butter the cake pan and roll a circle from the dough with a rolling pin or a bar, leave a strip of 75 gram to cover the pan. Lay it in a baking tray or cake pan and press the dough against the buttered sides, fill the pie with the apple and raisin mix and make some strokes to cover the top or leave it open.
5. Bake the apple pie in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 45-50 min and let grannies devilish apple pie cool for about 4 hours, enough time to whip some cream et voilà bon appétit your in culinary heaven!
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