My apple pie recipe
I misplaced my paper copy of an apple pie recipe I have followed for 5 years and is a family fav, so I'm hoping that by writing it down, I can preserve it in a way:
Ingredients:
8 Granny Smith apples
2 deep-dish pie crusts
1/2 c butter
3 tbsp flour
1/2 c white sugar
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 c water
Optional: A smattering of cinnamon
Peel and slice 8 Granny Smith apples. This is a time-consuming step so what my mom does is once we're done with the peeling, we put the apples in a giant tub of lemon water to slow the browning. For slicing, I tend to use a food processor bc I'm lazy, but if you don't have that luxury, just slice the apples into manageable chunks. With the lemon water preservation, you can save the apples for baking the next day if you're wiped out from all the knifework.
Preheat oven to 425F. Dump the apple chunks/slices into one of the pie crusts. It can look like a little mountain, but don't worry: it shrinks while in the oven.
Roll out the other pie crust with a rolling pin to make some latticework. It doesn't have to be pretty (mine certainly isn't), but it does help to give a homey presentation to the pie AND hold onto some of the sugar-sauce mix you eventually pour over the pie. Once you've got the lattice work ready to go, arrange it on the apple mountain as you see fit.
Get a small sauce pan ready and melt the stick of butter. Once it's good and liquidy, pour in the 3 tbsp of flour. When it starts getting thick and bubbling, pour in both types of sugar and the water. Stir all that together (and add the cinnamon if you're inclined) and wait for it to get Extra Thicc. Should take about 5 minutes, but it can vary.
IMPORTANT: Put your apple mountain pie on a tray to catch any drips. It will drip and you do NOT want to walk into a kitchen full of smoke and/or flames in your oven in the near future.
SLOWLY pour the sugar sauce over the lattice work. I typically start pouring in the center of the pie bc it allows for the sauce to distribute throughout the pie from a good starting point. Pour over the rest of the pie and be sure to cover as much of the lattice work as you can with the sauce.
Stick the pie in the oven for about 15 minutes. Then lower the heat to about 375F and continue baking for about 45 minutes. Be sure to check your pie now and again!
The pie should eventually reach a lovely golden brown color. That's when you know it's done.
Ok, I think that's as much as I can remember ;_; Time to see if it was accurate
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Castletown Café Episode 18: Battery Acid Pie
Welcome Back My Sweetie Honey Darling Gravy Readers I Have Another Battery Acid Recipe For You (Hooray)
The Cafe Is Now Serving: Battery Acid Pie
Made With The Finest Battery Acid And 100% Safe For Lightener Consumption (Honest Words)
Back in March, I mixed up a recipe for Queen’s iconic glass of battery acid in cocktail and mocktail form, with lime juice and lemonade as the star ingredients. Limes return again for this re-creation of the battery acid pie Queen made for Noelle in an effort to try to lure her back to the Mansion. Needless to say, it didn’t work, and a battery acid pie just wouldn’t be safe for a Lightener to consume. A key lime pie, on the other hand….
I immediately knew that I was going to use a key lime pie to re-create Queen’s battery acid pie. It doesn’t look nearly as awesome as Jack Miller’s (@ x_hj_x)’s on Twitter or as accurate to the sprite, but, a gel/glaze topping just couldn’t work as nicely for a soft, creamy key lime pie. I don’t know how he and his friend primmsfairytale (also on Twitter) did it, but I have to give them a lot of credit for their vegan lemon cream pie version. Unfortunately, they didn’t have an exact recipe, and while they once recalled how they did it in a Twitter thread, I can’t seem to find it anymore.
Meanwhile, I’ll be using a key lime pie recipe that has been in my family for more than 20 years at this point, courtesy of my late grandmother. I gotta owe it to her, her recipe is simple, easy, and so so delicious. Sure, the filling isn’t green, but a bright green whipped topping can hide that.
You can make your own crust or use a pre-baked graham cracker crust - it’ll be good either way. My family always uses pre-made due to the fact they haven’t had as much luck with them. They do take practice, but I’ve had success in the past with making my own. For a graham cracker crust, I suggest this recipe, though I add extra butter to make sure it holds together well.
For the filling, only four ingredients are needed - lime zest, key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks. Be sure to add the lime juice last, very slowly, while stirring the egg yolk, condensed milk, and lime zest mixture as you go. This is to prevent scrambling the eggs - because the acid from the lime juice is enough to do that without any heat! (Another good reason why I went for this recipe for a Battery Acid Pie, haha).
After your pie has baked and completely cooled, add a little powdered sugar and green and yellow food coloring to a cup of heavy cream and beat until stiff peaks form. Pipe it onto the surface of your pie as you would a cake to give it a fancy design. I’ll admit, I didn’t really figure out much of a pattern as I piped this, I just kinda made it up as I went along. I wanted to have an X shape in the center, but I just didn’t outline that before piping. This is something that’ll take a lot of practice until I have a method that’ll work. But in the meantime, go crazy, pipe whatever design you want! You can even wait to color your whipped topping after it’s been fully whipped, divide it into two bowls, and make two different shades of green! If you want that X like the sprite, that may be the easiest method to do: cover the pie with a darker shade of green whipped cream, then pipe on a nice X with bright green. While you won’t get that shiny gel look, it’ll still look lovely, delicious, and more accurate to the sprite!
QUEEN’S BATTERY ACID PIE:
Crust:
12 sheets graham crackers
4 tbps plus 1-2 teaspoons melted butter
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
Pie filling:
4 egg yolks
3 tsp lime zest
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup key lime juice
Topping:
1 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons powdered sugar
Green and yellow food coloring
With a blender or food processor, grind up graham crackers into crumbs. Put in a few crackers at a time until a whole dozen are ground up. Pour into a mixing bowl.
Measure and firmly pack 1/3 cup of brown sugar and add it to the mixing bowl with the graham cracker crumbs. Stir together.
Melt 4 tablespoons of butter, plus a little extra. I recommend adding a couple extra teaspoons. The stove over medium-low heat is the best option to ensure the butter melts evenly and doesn’t bubble and boil before the whole amount is completely melted, like it does in a microwave.
Once butter is completely melted, remove from heat and add to the graham cracker and brown sugar mixture. Stir together until well combined.
Pour your graham cracker mixture into a 9-inch pie crust and press it together. It’s recommended you use the bottom of a measuring cup or glass, also, your hands work well too. Press it all together, from the sides to the bottom!
Bake your crust for about 10 to 12 minutes at 375 F, the time depends on your oven.
After your crust has baked and you take it out to let it cool for a bit, lower your oven temperature to 325 F and begin the filling….
Wash and dry limes and zest at least one of them. Just one lime should give you enough zest for this pie, about 3 teaspoons.
Add the zest to the mixing bowl, then separate egg yolks from the whites. Add the yolks to the mixing bowl with the zest and whisk together.
Pour in a whole can of sweetened condensed milk and whisk together.
Measure 1/2 cup of key lime juice and very slowly add to your pie filling, whisking as you go. The slower, the better, so your yolks don’t scramble.
Give your pie filling another good whisking so all your ingredients are combined, then pour into your prepared graham cracker crust.
Bake at 325 F for just 15 minutes.
Have your pie cool on a wire rack after it’s finished baking, and once it’s cooled, make the whipped topping - be patient however as it takes a while for the pie to fully cool. Give it a few hours, at the very least.
In a mixing bowl, combine 1 cup of heavy cream with 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar and green and yellow food coloring. Unfortunately I don’t remember how much I used, but I suggest about 5 drops green and 2 drops yellow. If that’s still not intense enough, give it another drop each of green and yellow.
With an egg beater, mix on medium speed until stiff peaks form.
Alternatively, you can just combine the heavy cream with powdered sugar and whip until stiff peaks form, then add the food coloring, especially if you want to use two different shades of green like suggested prior to the recipe. If you want to get a design similar to the pie sprite - this method is strongly suggested.
Fit a piping bag with your tip of choice depending on what shape and size you want to use, and fill it with the whipped cream by placing the piping bag in a glass to stand it up, and fitting the ends of the bag around the rim. Spoon your whipped cream inside the piping bag, and remove the bag from the glass. Close your piping bag with your hands, a piping bag tie or even a tiny piece of wire.
Pipe whatever design you want onto the surface of your pie. The pattern with the X in the middle is difficult to emulate, but do your best. At the very least, you’ll have a key lime pie with green whipped cream!
Sources:
Segal, Jenn, “Best Ever Key Lime Pie”, Once Upon a Chef (onceuponachef.com). Link: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/key-lime-pie.html
Jack Miller’s (x_hj_x)’s Twitter post: https://twitter.com/x_hj_x/status/1464050997622415370
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HELLO IF U R READING THIS
i have made A PIE WIZARD
HE IS ALIVE and JOLLY
he started as a pie baron an he looked EVIL but then i baked aAAALLL the evil out and he became. so sweet indeed
and he TASTES KINDA LIKE? A CARAMEL LEMON APPLE SAUCE PIE? it is VERY YUMMY
heres my FUCKING recipe if you wanna TRY IT
ingrebients:
- box of aldis pie crust (or make your own idk how to do this)
- a bag o pink lady apples (or granny smith? or some other kinda apples. if u make another type lemme know. i used about 9-10 medium sized an it was a pretty full pie)
- two whole lemons
- 3 Tbsp flour
- a half cup of white sugar an another half cup of brown sugar
- some chrismas music goin on in the background
- cinnamon stick (or 2 tsp of ground cinnamon. its fun to grind up the cinnamon yourself w a mortar an pestle)
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 cup o water
- 1/4 tsp salt
1: cut the apples, put em in a big big bowl
2: cut the two lemons an squeeze the juice up over the apples
3: go to the stovetop an in a saucepan youre gonna melt a stick of butter. an as its melting put in the 3 Tbsp of flour an schmix it up
4: mix in a lil bowl 1/4 cup water, the ground up cinnamon, the 1/4 tsp nutmeg, the 1/4 tsp salt, both the sugars, a tsp? of vanilla maybe a 1/4 one, an then mix it with the flour butter schlop
let that get up to a boil an let it boil for a minute? an then simmer it for another. should be caramely
5: put 3/4th of that in with the apples an leave the rest for a bit
6: put the crust in yo 8x8 inch pan, i do a square one. then put the apple slop in there
do the other crust on top. get creative step here
7: put the rest of the schlop on top of the pie
8: gotta armor up your pie wrap the crust edges w aluminum foil
9: BAKE for 10-12 mins at 425F, THEN bake for 50 mins at 350F
10: sing songs to it while it bakes so sweetly....,,,,
11: wait for it to cool a lil. pairs well w an ice cream flavor that you love!!
IF YOU MAKE IT INFORM ME OF YOUR PIE EXPERIENCE MAKE YOUR PIE WIZARD PLOX
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