Most popular pie
Apples are the most familiar and widespread fruit in our latitudes. In a good year there is never a shortage of them, and the number of varieties whose fruits differ in taste, size, and juiciness is simply enormous. Accordingly, the recipes for apple pies also differ.
Our ancestors did not eat apples before the Apple Day (it is celebrated in August), so apple pie is a tribute to the harvest; it was associated, first of all, with autumn.
Nowadays, buying apples is not a problem; at any time of the year, supermarkets have either local or imported ones, so recipes are undergoing changes: housewives adapt to the products that are at hand.
Apple pies are baked from yeast, puff pastry, stretch dough. The recipe below involves shortbread dough.
Apple pie from our garden
Nina's father, Tiflis aristocrat Sandro Chavchavadze and his Russian namesake Alexander Griboedov had been friends since their youth. Griboyedov even taught tiny Nino to play the piano, laughing at the funny antics of the charming little girl who came to his lessons with dolls in her arms. Then the friends' paths diverged for a long decade, and only at 33 years old, at the age of Christ, the young diplomat and poet Griboyedov again found himself in Tiflis, where his first visit was to a friend's house.
A small remark is needed here that by his age, Griboedov, having had plenty of the metropolitan morals of both Moscow and St. Petersburg, had completely lost faith in noble beauties, not without reason believing that their intelligence was, rather, a caustic wit, their feelings - the desire for a profitable marriage, their perception of the world - a kaleidoscope of bright pictures, which is changeable and inexplicable, or rather, explainable by the moment, fashion or naked calculation, and their beauty is the fruit of the labors of milliners and all sorts of ladies' tricks like lipsticks, rouge and whitewash.
Therefore, when Alexander rang the bell of the door of the Tiflis prince, he thought about anything, but not about the fact that he would encounter on the threshold a young brown-eyed angel, whose wasp waist could be wrapped in two palms, whose peach cheeks knew no other rubbing than spring water, and the huge doe eyes shone with such purity and insight that the capital’s cynic simply became numb.
Portrait of Nino Chavchavadze by artist Desena
Griboyedov was invited to tea and seated at the table opposite the young beauty.
- Help yourself, my friend Alexander! This is “Black Rose” - a pie made from apples from our garden. Nina baked it herself.
Griboyedov saw double. The dark petals of the lush pie were fragrant with vanilla and cinnamon, but even more keenly he felt the fresh apple aroma of Nina herself, who was sitting at arm's length from him.
- Nina! Can I talk to you?! - the diplomat suddenly exclaimed and ran headlong from the dining room to Nina’s father’s office. The girl obediently followed him. “We entered the room, my cheeks flushed... I don’t remember what I started telling her, and everything became more and more alive. She cried, laughed, and I kissed her…” Griboedov would write two days later in a letter to his friend.
Recommendations for choosing products
Butter
You will need a pack of butter 180-200 g, with a fat content of 72.5%. The fattier the oil, the fluffier the dough will be. Naturally, the butter should contain only cow's milk cream and should not contain any additives. The butter needs to be cooled and cut into cubes.
1 tbsp. premium flour
Flour must be sifted before adding to the dough. This will ensure the dough is airy as the lumps break up and the flour is saturated with oxygen. In addition, when sifting, the possibility of debris getting in is eliminated, from which, unfortunately, no one is safe.
2/3 tbsp. powdered sugar or 1 tbsp. Sahara
Powder is preferable because the dough will have a more uniform consistency, and the finished cake will be tender and crispy.
½ tbsp. chopped nuts
Nuts give apple pie a very special taste. Any kind will do: walnuts, almonds, peanuts. Half a glass is an approximate value, you can take more, the main thing is to chop well.
1 tbsp. rich thick sour cream
The higher the fat content of the sour cream, the better the pie will rise, so you shouldn’t skimp. Sour cream with a low fat content contains a lot of liquid and is not suitable for baking.
Charlotte with kefir - step-by-step recipe with video
It's better to show once than to tell many times). For this simple reason, at the end of the article, I suggest watching the process of making charlotte with kefir on video.
To prepare we will need:
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- eggs – 2 pcs.
- kefir – 1 glass
- butter – 50-60 grams
- lemon juice – 1 tablespoon
- vegetable oil – 5 tablespoons
- apples – 3-4 pcs.
- baking powder for the dough
- powdered sugar
Don’t miss the opportunity to make your own pie, because it is incomparably tastier than store-bought. Yes, and in your pie you will put only the best quality, but in a store-bought one you can fill up on preservatives (.
And the cooking process itself! When there is the aroma of baking and the whole family is waiting in anticipation of a delicious dessert... and now the moment has come... Do you know what I mean? We remember this atmosphere as moments of happiness!
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