Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Apple-Ginger-Cranberry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream


This is the last of the Thanksgiving meal I am making ahead of time.  It is also from Williams Sonoma, but I have found a problem.  The rest of the day I will be making breakfast muffins and pre-peeling all the vegetables for tomorrow. 
Ingredients:
2 rolled-out rounds of pie dough
4# Golden Delicious apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
1 ½ C cranberries
¼ C chopped crystallized ginger
¾ C sugar, plus more for sprinkling
¼ t salt
3 T all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling dough
1 T fresh lemon juice
1 egg plus 1 t water, lightly beaten
Vanilla ice cream for serving
Directions:
1.       Remove 1 dough round from the refrigerator.  Roll out to fit the largest deepest pie pan you own.  Mine was about 2” deep and 12” in diameter.  The filling made a mound so high that Martha would be proud.  The recipe says a 9” pie pan.  No way.  Fit the dough in the bottom and trim the edges.  Reroll the scraps to cut out decorative shapes.  Put both in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.
2.       Heat the oven to 400 degrees.
3.       In a large bowl, toss together the apples, cranberries, crystallized ginger, the ¾ C sugar, salt, 3 T flour and the lemon juice.
4.       Take the pie shell, decorations and second disk out of the refrigerator and let rest for 5 minutes. 
5.       Pour the filling in the pie plate and place the second crust over the top.  Wrap the extra dough under the lower crust and crimp the edges decoratively.  Cut the top pastry with a knife decoratively in the middle. 
6.       Brush the decorations with egg wash and stick on the pastry.  Brush the entire crust with egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. 
7.       Bake the pie until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling, about an hour.  (Mine took 1 hour and 10 minutes.)  It did leak, so bake on a sheet pan so you don’t have to clean your oven.
8.       Transfer to a wire rack to cool. 
Serve with vanilla ice cream.  No, I did not make the ice cream.       

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