APPLE PIE

RECIPE FROM MY AUNT OLGA

INGREDIENTS:

5/6 royal gala apples cut into slices

1 pinch of salt

4.23 oz of sifted flour

3.53 oz of brown sugar

3 eggs (if they are big enough even 2)

3.53 oz of fresh soft butter (which is melted in the pan in the oven with breadcrumbs or chopped hazelnuts)

1/2 packet of baking powder

1/2 cup of warm milk

handful of dried raisins (softened in hot water and squeezed) and pine nuts sautéed first in the pan for decoration over apples

1) Heat the oven to 356 F with the cake tin containing 3.53 oz of butter cut into pieces and remove it from the oven when the butter is melted

2) Peel and slice the apples and sprinkle them with brown sugar

3) Mix the 3 eggs with the sugar, the flour, and the sieved yeast, the milk, the butter, the pinch of salt 

4) In the cake tin greased with melted butter distribute bread crumbs, or hazelnuts from Piedmont for gourmets lovers, and spread over in a double circle the slices of sweetened apples

5) Pour the soft dough over the apples, spread over the raisins squeezed and dried on the waterproof paper, and add then the handful of pine nuts

6) Bake in preheated oven at 356 F for approx. 40 minutes – then sprinkle freshly baked with brown sugar- enjoy it !!