Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, apple-pear pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I have a pear tree that produces hard hard pears that never seem to soften. So I just make pie with them. Once cooked in the pie thay come out perfect– soft but firm and not at all mushy.
Apple-Pear Pie is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Apple-Pear Pie is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook apple-pear pie using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Apple-Pear Pie:
- Take lemon for zest
- Take baking apples (granny smith, etc.), peeled, cored, sliced
- Take baking pears (bosc, etc.), peeled, cored, sliced
- Prepare brown sugar
- Prepare ground cinnamon
- Make ready ground ginger
- Make ready fine salt
- Prepare freshly grated nutmeg
- Make ready golden raisins (soaked in brandy, optional)
- Take unsalted butter (1/2 stick)
- Get fruit jam / preserve (clear, such as apricot, etc.)
- Get all-purpose flour
- Get pure vanilla extract
- Make ready large egg, beaten (for egg wash)
- Get store-bought pie crusts (follow package instructions for use)
Stir in the vanilla and lemon juice. This is a terrifically delicious apple pear pie. The tartness of the Granny Smith apples combines wonderfully with the pears. The apples and pears are cooked down with sugars and seasonings to a nice consistency and flavor.
Steps to make Apple-Pear Pie:
- For the filling: Finely grate the lemon zest and set aside. Peel, core and then slice both the apples and pears into 1/2-inch slices. Coarsely chop the slices. Squeeze the lemon juice over the fruit then toss fruit with the sugar, cinnamon, ginger, salt and nutmeg. Mix in the raisins.
- Melt the butter in a very large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the fruit and cook, stirring until the sugar dissolves and juices simmer, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium, add the fruit jam (optional), and cook uncovered, until the fruit softens and the juices evaporate some, about 10 minutes.
- Evenly mix the flour into the fruit; then cook about a 2 minutes more to thicken the juices slightly. Stir in the vanilla and lemon zest; and remove from the heat. (The filling should resemble tight compote.) Cool completely.
- Form the pie: Transfer one prepared pie dough sheet from a lightly flour dusted surface area to 9-inch pie pan, so it hangs about 1/2-inch over the edge of the pan. Fill the crust with the prepared fruit so it mounds slightly in the center.
- Roll the other dough sheet onto the dusted rolling pin and unroll it over the fruit so it hangs over the edge of the pie pan by about 1/2-inch. Trim crusts evenly with a knife and press both top and bottom edges to seal. Flute the crust edge with a fork or fingers to make an even impression. Refrigerate the pie for at least 20 minutes.
- Place the oven rack in the lower third of the oven and heat to 400 degrees F.
- Brush pie with egg wash and sprinkle with white sugar on top if desired. Cut 6 to 8 small steam vents into the top of the pie dough. Place pie on a baking sheet (drippings) and bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 375 degrees F.
- Bake for another 45-50 minutes until the crust is golden brown. If the edges begin to brown too quickly, cut a pie crust shield out of a piece of aluminum foil and cover the edges. When done baking, cool on a rack for 1-2 hours.
- Tip: Serve with ice-cream of course.
Cinnamon butter brushed on the crust gives it a nice color. This pie holds its shape well when sliced. This is the marriage of two wonderful fruits, apples and pears. This Apple Pear Pie is everything I want in a fall dessert. Its tender buttery crust, sweet and tart apple pear filling, and delicious aromas from the spices, made it not only delicious, but made my house smell amazing while cooking.
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