Baking Workshop 6/19, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper grins at the students as they arrive. "We are going to make pie today, apple to be specific."

She points to the pie she made for the class. "You'll need to work with a partner. One of you will make the crust and the other will make the filling. Then you'll both work together to assemble the pie. Since there are eight of you, you should all have a partner. If anyone is absent, I'll be someone's partner."

She hands them a list of ingredients and instructions. "Have fun!"


Equipment Needed

Mixing Bowl

Rolling Pin

Knife

Measuring Spoons

Measuring Cups

Dough Blender

Cutting Board

Pie Pan


Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

6 tablespoons butter

6 tablespoons shortening

6 to 8 tablespoons ice water


Instructions

Warm butter in microwave until soft, but not melted.

Mix flour, salt and sugar in bowl.

Add butter, shortening and ice water.

Wrap pie crust in plastic wrap then place in refrigerator for 20 minutes.



Ingredients

5 peeled apples

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons flour

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon vinegar

2 tablespoons butter


Instructions

Peel and slice apples.

Soak them in water with a tablespoon of lemon juice. This will help prevent them from turning brown.

Mix flour, cinnamon, salt and vinegar in large mixing bowl.

Mix apples into the pie flavoring.



Instructions

Assembling the Pie

Now that your pie crust has had time to cool divide it into two equal halves.

Roll one of the balls of pie crust out until it is around 1/8 of an inch thick.

Wrap the dough around the rolling pin and unroll it onto your pie pan.

Take a fork and poke holes in the bottom of the crust to let steam out as it cooks.

Place the apples in the pie in a pattern so that they all fit in the pie.

Pour the leftover coating over them.

Place about 4 chunks of butter on top of apple filling.

Roll out the remaining pie dough and place it on top.

Create a pattern around the edge of the pie by using the back of a knife.

Baking the Pie

Cut long strips of tinfoil and place them around the edge of the pie.

Bake pie at 400 degrees for 50-60 minutes.

Take tinfoil off about ten minutes before the pie is baked to have a golden brown edge.



[ooc: ingredients and instructions from here]

Comments

Re: Bake

[stykera]

"Double the filling sounds like a good idea to me," Stark said with a nod. "But I don't think that counts as a pie. Of course, I don't know if it would count as a pie if I tried to make the crust, either."

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"And I know it wouldn't count as a pie if I did," Sam eyed the crust ingredients warily. So far they didn't seem sentient, but around here? "I have flour issues."

Re: Bake

[stykera]

"Flour issues?" Stark frowned at the instructions for the crust. "I can try it," he said finally. "Nothing I made has killed anyone yet. Maybe this will work."

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Crepes went very, very badly. As did the brownies. And the carrot cake." She shrugged, getting the ingredients together. "But only the crepes needed me to use the fire extinguisher."

"Hey, the worst that happens is that we peel the crust off and eat the apples, right? That's the best part anyway."

Re: Bake

[stykera]

"Nothing should catch on fire with the pie. Unless we do something very, very wrong. At least then the crust wouldn't matter?" Stark offered as he went to warm up the butter. "And yes, we can always just eat the apples."

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam grabbed a peeler and began working on the apples, stopping halfway through the first one to make the bowl of water and lemon juice. "That's a good point, thanks, Stark."

Re: Bake

[stykera]

Keeping the bowl where he was mixing things as far away from Sam as he could, in case her flour issues were contagious, Stark grinned. "But don't set the pie on fire just so you don't have to eat the crust. Please."

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She flicked a clingy apple peel into the sink, sighed, and raised one hand. "I solemnly swear I will not purposely set fire to anything."

Re: Bake

[stykera]

"Good. Everyone is better off that way," Stark replied, as he tried to make the remaining ingredients mix into something that might someday resemble a crust.