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me n my sister made an apple pie with apples from my dad's back yard. very christmas vibes. can't eat it cuz celiac (sad) but she said it was really good.

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we made a gluten free one too... it seemed impossible to actually make a top for it so we just gave up. it was okay, definitely seemed less good than the gluten one.

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what did you guys use to do it, i feel like my mom would enjoy this

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the gluten free one?

we used bob's red mill mix for the crust and just followed the directions, but we didn't have any lard or shortening (an L) so we used extra butter. Then we used oat flour + corn starch (slurry) as the 'thickening' in the apple filling.

The using those as a thickener worked a lot better than the pie crust part lol.

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honestly im being a bit of a baby about it tho. the crust was very unoffensive. like it wasn't actively bad just not what one would hope for in a pie.

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my family loves gluten so i think a normal recipe is fine I just want to help her get started, i have no idea what you'd need and I don't think she does either

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oh its pretty straightforward let me get it!

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we kind of made it up as we went along so sorry for it not being an super exact recipe.

for the filling:
like 6 or 7ish medium apples, put them in a bowl. granny smith are best cuz they dont fall apart when baked as much. the sugar counteracts the sour.
add like 2 tablespoons of lemon juice (this was maybe too much)
like a teaspoon of ginger
half a teaspoon of nutmeg
a tablespoon of cinnamon.
like half a cup of brown sugar and 3/4th a cup of white sugar (lots of sugar)
like 2 table spoons of all purpose flour.

After you put the filling in the pie crust put little slices of cold butter on top of the fillilng, but below the pie crust

For the crust:
well first of all, a lot easier to just buy a premade pie crust. if my sister wasn't here to do it for me, that's what i'd do. She has a 'cheater' way to make pie crusts that is pretty flakey and a lot easier than the traditional way. Im just copying what the told me here, I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to crust. she says 'its technically a puff pastry but its fine for pie dough.'

EDIT: she also says 'its pretty hard maybe just buy it.' she's being pretty wishy washy on how easy/hard it is.
DOUBLE EDIT: Says it'll take two days so do it in advance

3 sticks unsalted butter (12 oz / 340g), chilled
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (16 oz / 455g), plus more for rolling
2 tablespoons sugar (0.9 oz / 25g)
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (0.16 oz / 5g)

  1. get the butter really cold (freezer cold) and cheese grate it, then put it in the freezer
  2. mix 2.5 cups of flour + the sugar + the salt in a bowl. Then toss in half of the butter and mix. Then back in the freezer.
  3. mix the milk with equal parts ice cold water into its own cup
  4. pour milk into the bowl with the flour and shit and mix it until its a loose dough (no idea what this means personally)
  5. roll dough on a lightly floured (to make sure it doesn't stick) surface. keep dusting with more flour if it sticks
  6. but a quarter of the remaining butter (an eighth of the original amount) in the center of the dough and fold it. Do this twice (so use half of the remaining butter). Fold each side in like a square.
  7. Roll out the dough until its flat and then do it again. this will use the rest of your butter.
  8. Do the same folding thing again without any butter cuz youre out
  9. Roll it out again and wrap in plastic. Put in fridge overnight minimum but you can wait longer if you want.

(the crust part ended up seeming hard i was unaware she put this much work into the pie lmao).

she also says the big thing that will get you is if you let the dough get too hot while folding it n stuff. try to keep your hands cold ect.

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bro you didnt have to do that for me

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eh it was no big deal at all

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i thought you were just excited when you said lets get it lol

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it was a typo! i meant to say 'let me get it' (the recipe)

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oh peel and cut the apples into slices. make sure you remove the core. i shoulda specified that.

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would you recommend getting a pie bird, it seems like a good christmas present

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i had to google what this is, but its cute af. if you know somoene who makes a lot of pies a super cute gift for sure

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I've never known anyone who's made a pie

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yea i think in the year 2021 of our lord its mostly an old person thing

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no worries I'll fix it up and we'll probably do one for Easter

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baking is hard

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but its a fun thing to make a day of with the family esp if you aren't too invested in it coming out right. hard enough that having multiple people helps and idk i think its sometimes hard to find things to do with my family since we've dont have many common interests.

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if u guys are really in need to bring something for the holidays do this: Olive Salad
you just buy jars of pickled veg you like (olives, roasted red peppers, banana peppers, giardinera, etc., etc and get some red onions and celery to dice and its done. You can add cauliflower or other crunchy veg and then serve it on arugula or whatever you like, doesn't need dressing since the oil and vinegar the veg is packed in is enough dressing
just be sure to drain everything before mixing it up since it would be insanely salty otherwise