Old-Fashioned Apple Pie

Recipe courtesy of Martha Stewart

Yield: Makes 1 double-crusted 10-inch pie

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 8 apples (4 tart, 4 sweet)
• 1 Basic Pie Dough
• 1/4 cup sugar, plus 2 teaspoons for sprinkling
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out the dough
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Pinch ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1 tablespoon cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 tablespoon milk

Basic Pie Dough

Recipe courtesy of Martha Stewart

Yield: Makes 1 double-crusted 9- or 10-inch pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) cold, unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• 1/2 cup cold milk or water

Skillet Apple Pie

Serves 6 to 8

If your skillet is not heatproof, precook the apples and stir in the cider mixture as instructed, then transfer the apples to a 13- by 9-inch baking dish. Roll out the dough to a 13- by 9-inch rectangle and bake it as instructed. If you do not have apple cider, reduced apple juice may be used as a substitute—simmer 1 cup apple juice in a small saucepan over medium heat until reduced to 1/2 cup (about 10 minutes). Serve the pie warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Use a combination of sweet, crisp apples such as Golden Delicious and firm, tart apples such as Cortland or Empire.

Ingredients

Crust

• 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour (5 ounces), plus more for dusting work surface
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening , chilled
• 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) cold unsalted butter , cut into 1/4-inch pieces
• 3–4 tablespoons ice water

Filling

• 1/2 cup apple cider (see note)
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice from 1 lemon
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 1/2 pounds sweet apples and tart apples (about 5 medium), peeled, cored, halved, and cut into 1/2-inch-thick wedges (see note)

• 1 egg white , lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons sugar