Sometimes I want to forget about the affairs and concerns, and to gather at the same table with his beloved family, to discuss the previous day and drink a cup of tea. And the best addition to the fragrant tea is an apple pie Cake with apples - fragrant delicacy for children and adults Recipe is often passed down from generation to generation. Perhaps that is why the aroma of apple pie for many associated with the warmth of the hearth.

Secrets of cooking delicious apple pie

As a rule, for the preparation of apple pie does not require any exotic ingredients - enough food, and so that there is always at home: flour, sugar, eggs and milk. To the cake turned out delicious, fragrant apples should be used varieties. Especially good apple pies Apple pie - one of the most popular desserts in the world   with Antonovka - light green apples irregular shape with a sour taste and a delicious aroma. Not everyone loves Antonovka in raw form, but this sort of pie fits perfectly. Lovers of sweet fruits like pies stuffed with cinnamon apples, juicy apples Jonagold and Golden Delicious.

It is best to bake cakes with fresh ripe apples that have not been subjected to special treatment for long-term storage. But even with gaudy shop apples can cook delicious cakes, if you use spices. The shops often sell special mixture of spices for apple pies, including ground cinnamon, ground coriander, nutmeg, fragrant and black pepper, ginger, cloves and cardamom Cardamom: grains of paradise and the king of spices . All these spices blend well with winter fruit pies and give exquisite flavor.

Sometimes apples for pies soaked in alcohol to impart special flavors. Of course, children are the pies are not worth giving, but adults will appreciate the original flavor of apple slices, which were used for soaking the sweet wine or flavored brandy.

Basis for apple pie can be prepared from virtually any test - sponge, sand, puff, extract, yeast, sour cream, cottage cheese. Cake dough before it spread to apples, it is recommended to sprinkle starch, which does not allow the apple juice to flow out. Sometimes starch is recommended to add the filling, prepared with juicy apples, grated - such filling is obtained particularly tender.

As a rule, apple pies are served to the table warm. In Europe, hot and juicy apple pie often complement scoop of ice cream and a strudel with apple stuffing usually served vanilla sauce or liquid custard. For low-fat apple desserts are good as whipped cream.

Delicate apple pie with meringue

For the preparation of this cake are good any fragrant apples - sweet or sour. To make the dough, you will need a cup of flour, one hundred grams of butter, a couple of tablespoons of sugar, a pinch of salt, egg yolk and two tablespoons of milk. All ingredients must be cool temperature.

Chilled butter Grate or finely chop with a knife, add salt, sugar, flour, egg yolk and milk. Quickly knead polukrutoe dough, roll it into a ball, place in a plastic bag and place in refrigerator for half an hour.

When the dough has cooled, you can prepare the filling. To do this, four large apple must be cleaned, grate and sprinkle with lemon juice to avoid darkening. Chilled dough thinly roll out and place in a greased baking dish, forming ledges. On top put the grated apples, sprinkle with a little sugar (just a tablespoon) and place in preheated oven one hundred and eighty degrees.

Two egg whites thoroughly beat with the addition of two teaspoons of lemon juice, gradually pour half a cup of powdered sugar or fine granulated sugar. The thus obtained protein cream to put apples in ten or fifteen minutes after the start of the baking cake, reduce the heat to a hundred and twenty degrees and bake for another ten minutes, then turn the heat off and leave the cake to cool in the oven for an additional ten minutes. Meringue should buy a nice cream color and slightly thicken.

Maria Bykov

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