Me oh my! I love Pie!

I love the little song about pie that Dorothy (Andie MacDowell) sings in the movie, "Michael." 

Pie, pie me oh my! Nothing tastes sweet, wet salty and dry, all at one so well as pie!

Apple! Pumpkin! Minced and wet bottom. I'll come to your place every day if you've got 'em. 

Pie, me o my, I love pie!

The week of Thanksgiving, everyone asks for the pie recipes -- namely apple and pumpkin. The secret is the crust. My mother made a crust so good and rich, you could eat it alone. And it really enhances any pie. 

It inspired me to write a book about pies as part of a project for the US Embassy Vienna  and a subsequent video on making an apple pie. Here's the link if you want to make a pie along with me! 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v= 8qbyUVzIfhs

Anyway, here's the famous crust recipe.  This recipe will make the top and bottom crusts for one pie, or two crusts for open pies. 

Ingredients: 

1 cup (two sticks) butter

2/3 cup white sugar

1 egg yolk

3 cups of all purpose flour

pinch of salt

1/4 cup of ice cold water

Mix butter and sugar. It can be lumpy. Mix in the egg yolk. Add the flour and salt and sprinkle the cold water over it. Knead into a crumbly dough. Press about half of the mixture in the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch pie pan. Or you can roll out the dough into a 1/8-inch thick circle and place it in the pan. Crimp the edges with your fingers or a fork.  Fill with fruit, top with the rest of the crumbly mixture and bake about 1 hour at 350 degrees F. 

For apple pie: Peel, core and slice 8 to 10 red delicious apples (I use these because they don't require much
more sugar.)  Put the apples in the prepared crust. It should make a pretty high mound of apples -- it sinks when it cooks.  Put dots of butter on the apples. Sprinkle about a tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of cinnamon. Cover with the remaining pie crust. Just press the crumbly mixture loosely over the apples to cover completely.  Sprinkle the top with cinnamon. 

Bake! Let it sit for a few minutes after you take it out of the oven. 

Enjoy!!!

Look at these two cuties who made the apple pie!