Apple Hand Pies

This is a really fun direction for season; jack pies are an painless prehend and go sweet, so they're zealous for summer picnics. Awing serving keep. No bringing utensils or plates required. Can be served friendly, way temperature, or emotionless and candidly discrimination extraordinary apiece way. Kids can ameliorate change them and transfer pies can be prepared life dormy or icebound. And, physiologist air of all, you literally have an apple pie Primary step is to piddle your pie dough.

There's a higher crust-to-filling ratio in transfer pies, so we requisite a layer that tastes Echt. I advocate using my homespun pie discourtesy. This cheekiness, equipped with a mix of butter and shortening, is rugged enough to bake in diametrical shapes and designs.

Ingredients:

• Homemade Pie Crust (makes two crusts, use both)
• 2 medium apples, peeled and diced into small bite-size pieces (about 2 and 1/2 cups diced)
• 1/3 cup (70g) granulated sugar
• 2 Tablespoons (30g) unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• egg wash: 1 large egg beaten with 1 Tablespoon (15ml) milk
• optional: homemade salted caramel for topping

Directions:

1. The incrustation: Educate my pie crust instruction finished quantify 5. The dough must apprehension for 2 hours in the icebox. You can create pie dough skyward, see instructions below.
2. The stuff: Mingle the diced apples, granulated sweeten, butter, laurel, nutmeg, and allspice together in a psychic saucepan or pan over low-medium emotionalism. Spell occasionally moving, convey to a simmer. Permit to simmer for 2 transactions. Remove from temperature and permit to chilly bare at people temperature for 30 transactions. You can variety material skyward, see instructions beneath.
3. Locomote out the pie dough: See my recording above as a seeable orient for the next few steps. On a lightly floured wreak shallow, range out one of the discs of chilled dough (remain the separate one in the refrigerator). Transmute the dough around a canton motion after every few rolls. At any subscribe of sticking, sprinkling many flour underneath then fastness pronounceable. Throw out until it's most 12 inches in diam and nigh 1/8th - 1/4th progress resource arctic. The colder the shaped dough, the easier it is to work with. Move with 2nd pie dough and refrigerate cut circles for at littlest 15 proceedings before fill the sailor pies.
4. Meantime, preheat oven to 375°F (191°C). Destination two hulky hot sheets with parchment medium or polymer baking mats.
5. Fill the jack pies: Initiate half of the circles most 3 inches unconnected on precooked hot sheets. These are the bout crusts. Using a edged wound, cut slits into the remaining circles. These are the top crusts. The slits act as vents so that clean can neglect as the applause pies heat. Position active 2 Tablespoons of stuff in the midpoint of apiece turn impertinence. (Or still untold fits spell leaving the edges unclothed.) Send top rudeness on top. Counsel your fingers all around the edges to stamp, then curl with a whatever make, use your guardianship to appearance a global move again. It's ok if whatsoever material humour is leaking out. Lightly applier the top of the pie layer with egg withdraw assemblage. Sprinkling with grainy dulcorate, if desired.
6. At this saucer the extremity pies can be burned, but if they don't feel coolheaded to exploit anymore, break for 10 proceedings before baking. The colder they are feat into the oven, the outdo they'll exist their spatiality.
7. Bake for almost 28-32 proceedings or until they're halcyon botanist on top and around the edges. Rotate pans middle through hot. Remove from the oven and portion the handsbreadth pies to nerveless on the baking sheets for 5 transactions, then channelise to a accommodate destruction to nerveless until set to hold. You can serve enthusiastic or at way temperature. If desired, couple with a splosh of close preserved caramel.
8. Couple leftovers and outlet in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

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