2006 F&W Best New Chef Cathal Armstrong tells of how a family friend came over for lunch one day and marveled at the apple pie his mother, Angela, had made. When her husband, Gerry, asserted that it must have been the apples he grew that made the pie taste so good, the friend said, “Angela, you tell him pastry like that doesn’t grow on trees.”
Since puff pastry can be tricky to prepare, this version of Angela’s pie uses a high-quality, store-bought puff pastry. You’ll have some scraps of puff pastry leftover; use them up in other snacks.
While this pie is delicious prepared as-is, feel free to add some of your favorite baking spices, like cinnamon, cardamom, or nutmeg to the apple mixture. Try sprinkling demerara sugar on the crust before baking to make it shatteringly crisp. Serve the pie with a scoop of ice cream or add spices to the whipped cream to give it a little more complexity.
2006 F&W Best New Chef Cathal Armstrong tells of how a family friend came over for lunch one day and marveled at the apple pie his mother, Angela, had made. When her husband, Gerry, asserted that it must have been the apples he grew that made the pie taste so good, the friend said, “Angela, you tell him pastry like that doesn’t grow on trees.” Since puff pastry can be tricky to prepare, this version of Angela’s pie uses a high-quality, store-bought puff pastry. You’ll have some scraps of puff pastry leftover; use them up in other snacks. While this pie is delicious prepared as-is, feel free to add some of your favorite baking spices, like cinnamon, cardamom, or nutmeg to the apple mixture. Try sprinkling demerara sugar on the crust before baking to make it shatteringly crisp. Serve the pie with a scoop of ice cream or add spices to the whipped cream to give it a little more complexity.
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