This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making picnic pies. Dorie describes a picnic pie as “large, slim, fruit filled pastries, built in low-rimmed pans..” Since I was not cooking for a crowd I decided to use a traditional pie pan.
My family was not too keen on a pear pie so I turned to Dorie’s “Playing Around” section and decided on a double apple pie. I need to perfect an apple pie before Thanksgiving so this was an opportunity to try another recipe. My pie includes two pounds of Honeycrisp apples, five snipped dried apple slices, orange marmalade, sugar, grated zest and juice of half a lemon. The pie is supposed to bake for 50-55 minutes. I ended up baking my pie for almost 90 minutes to get the crust done, thank goodness for glass bottom pie plates. I think I rolled my dough too thick, lessons for next time.
One of the successes of this recipe is the slicing of the apples. I did them by hand and not too thin. My apples pieces stay intact and did not turn to mush like they did on our last apple pie Mulled-Butter Apple Pie. We definitely tasted the apple but we did not taste the orange marmalade. This was an easy recipe with good apple flavor that I was mostly successful at so a win for me.
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Your apple pie looks great Diane. I agree, there was a lot of dough – I only used a half recipe but made a full batch of dough by mistake- the other half is in the freezer for another day.
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Your pie looks great! I combined pears and apples since I only had two pears. The apple flavor definitely overpowers the pears so it tasted just like an apple pie.
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I think you were totally successful! I agree with you…there seemed to be a lot of dough and it made for a thick crust. No one seemed to complain haha but I think I could have gotten away with less and rolled it thinner! I did all apples too 🙂
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this looks great – and I agree there was a LOT of dough!!
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looks like it baked up beautifully! how much did you wind up downsizing the dough recipe? do you think a half recipe would have worked? asking for a friend 🙂
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I ended up making my normal pie recipe not the sour cream version. From everyone’s comments maybe a half recipe would be okay.
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Your pie is beautiful! Definitely a thick crust on mine as well as that dough was a big recipe like everyone noted. I made a traditional pie with it all as with just the two of us here now, I was afraid the slab version would get a bit soggy and Mark doesn’t really care for soggy pie. She said it was best the day made so I just did a 7″ size figuring he could polish it off in a day or two since pie is his favorite dessert. Might tackle the slab version for Thanksgiving as there will be plenty of people to eat it and Mardi’s looked so beautiful as a slab. Yours is gorgeous and I’m thinking everyone was drooling just at the sight of it.
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