Grammy's Kitchen · Apple Pie · Thanksgiving Apple Pie
One of 64 apple pie recipes we measured
from handletheheat.com
6 cooks on handletheheat.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 64.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 0% | 14% |
| liquid | 6% | 3% |
| total sugar | 65% | 54% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 67% | 0% |
| egg | 22% | 10% |
| dairy | 6% | 0% |
| thickener | 3% | 0% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 230 g | 1 Double batch of pie dough |
| 1588 g | 3 1/2 pounds (1 1/2 kg) apples from about 7 medium apples ((Granny smith)) |
| 31 g | 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice |
| 50 g | 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar |
| 100 g | 1/2 cup (100 grams) light brown sugar |
| 6 g | 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg |
| 0 g | 1/4 teaspoon ginger |
| 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves | |
| 1 g | 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon cornstarch |
| 50 g | 1 large egg yolk |
| 15 g | 1 tablespoon heavy cream or whole milk |
| Coarse sugar, (for sprinkling) |
Method: 10 steps, published by handletheheat.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made this wonderful pie today as well as a recipe of double batch pie crust, and a single pie crust. For the single pie, I baked immediately and it looks wonderful. For the double, I did refrigerate the dough over night, and rolling it out was a dream! It” — a cook, 5.0★
“This is flavourful, crispy and ... just perfect! Following the recipe exactly as written it turned out with a balanced taste and texture. The only thing I needed to adjust was the time in the oven. It took about an hour and a half for the lower part of the s” — a cook, 5.0★