Apple Pie

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a baking tray.
2. To make short crust pastry, sieve flour with salt into a mixing bowl. Add butter and rub it in with finger tips till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add 1 cup chilled water and knead into dough.
3. Roll out the dough to about 3 mm thickness. Cut into thin strips.
4. To make apple filling, peel the apples and core. Then scoop out flesh from the center to make apple cups. Keep the scooped out flesh in a bowl.
5. Add sponge cake crumbs, brown sugar, cinnamon powder and butter and mix well.
6. Stuff this mixture into the apple cups. Place the dough strips on the top of both the apples in a criss-cross pattern and cover them completely. Brush milk over them and keep them on the baking tray.
7. Keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
8. Place the apple pies on a serving plate and sprinkle some icing sugar on it. Serve.

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