Pie Crust:

600 gr all-purpose flour

250 gr unsalted butter

cold water as needed

40 gr sugar

a pinch of salt

1 egg yolk

Filling:

10 apples

1 tbs ground cinnamon

juice of half lemon

100 gr sugar

a pinch of salt

60 gr unsalted butter

30 gr corn starch

If you like: half tsp nutmeg

Peel the apples and cut them into 10/12 slices. Put the apples in a container, add the sugar, salt, cinnamon (nutmeg if you like) and mix well. Let rest for 30-40 minutes at least.

In a container put the flour, the salt and the sugar. Add the cold butter.

Start kneading with your hand crumbling the butter. After a while the whole mixture will crumble. Add now, slowly some cold water and continue kneading until it becomes a dough.

Take 3/5 of the dough (retain the remaining dough) and roll it between 2 cling film sheets (this will make it wasier to line the pie pan).

Take off the upper cling film and turn the dough upside down to line a pie pan, take off the other cling film. Put in refrigerator per 30 minutes.

Heat the oven to 200° C.

Add the butter and melt it. Now the apples should have released some juice, put the juice in a casserole and bring to boil, let it boil until it get slightly caramelized.

Add the corn starch to the apples and mix well. Now add the syrup.

Pour the apples into the pastry lined pie pan. Roll out the remining dough and cover the apples.

Roll out the remaining dough and use it to cover the apples. Seal and decorate the apple pie as shown in the pictures.

Bake 45 minutes.

Pork With Apple Sauce

1 filetto di maiale (ca. 600 gr) / 1 pork fillet (ca. 600 gr)

3 mele / 3 apples

mezza cipolla / half onion

Sale e pepe / salt & pepper

2 cucchiai di farina / 2 tbs all-purpose flour

1 bicchiere di vino bianco / 1 glass of white wine

Olio d’oliva / olive oil

30 gr burro / 30 gr unsalted butter

1 dado / 1 stock cube

Tritare e soffriggere la cipolla con il burro e un poco di olio.

Chop and fry the onion with the butter and 2 tbs of olive oil.

Nel frattempo massaggiare la carne con sale e pepe e infarinarla leggermente. Metterla nella casseruola e lasciare dorare for 4 o 5 minuti.

Meanwhile, massage the meat with salt and pepper and coat it with some all-purpose flour.

Put it into the casserole and let fry all together for 4/5 minutes.

Bagnare con il vino e fare evaporare bene.

Add the wine And let evaporate well.

Ora aggiungere 2 bicchieri d’acqua e il dado.

Now add 2 glasses of water and the stock cube.

Affettare finemente le mele e unirle alla carne. Coprire e lasciare cuocere per circa 40 minuti.

Slice the apples and add them to the meat. Put a lid and let simmer for 40 minutes.

Togliere la carne e passare la salsa al colino.

Take out the meat. And sieve the sauce in a colander.

Affettare la carne e servirla con la salsa appena passata.

Slice the meat and serve with the above sauce.

 Apple Crumble

1kg mele / apples

200 gr zucchero / caster sugar

1 cucchiaino di cannella / teaspoon cinnamon

Per il crumble

375 gr farina / flour

200 gr burro (a temperatura ambiente) / butter (room temperature) 

150 gr zucchero / caster sugar

Tagliare le mele a tocchetti. Unire zucchero e cannella e mescolare. Versare nella teglia foderata di carta forno.

Peel and slice the apples, add the sugar and the cinnamon and stir. Put them into the baking pan (you need to coat this with baking paper).

Mettere gli ingredienti per il crumble in un recipiente. Impastare dapprima con le dita e continuare a sbriciolare la pasta. il caldo delle mani farà fondere il burro e si formeranno dei grumi che si possono compattare facilmente.

Put the ingredients of the crumble in a container. Start working them with your fingertips. The warmth of your hands will make the butter melt down and the dough will start making some big lumps that you can crumble easily.

Coprire le mele sbriciolando i grumi con le dita.

Now spread this crumble on the apples by lump and crumbling it with your fingers.

Informare a 160° per 45 minuti o finché sui bordi non si creano delle piccole bollicine e il crumble sopra non è color nocciola. Se diventa troppo scura coprire con un foglio di alluminio.

Put in the oven for 50/60 min at 170° or until the sides of the cake are forming some small bubbles (the top of the cake should be brownish by then). If it gets too brown cover it with an aluminum foil.