Grammy's Kitchen · Apple Pie · My Perfect Apple Pie
One of 64 apple pie recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 64 for bottom crispness among the apple pie recipes we compared. 57 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 64.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 0% | 14% |
| liquid | 0% | 3% |
| total sugar | 0% | 54% |
| egg | 0% | 10% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 2 x homemade shortcrust pastry ( this recipe, or store bought (Note 1)) | |
| 50 g | 1 egg (, lightly whisked) |
| 8 g | 2 tsp white sugar ((granulate/regular, not caster/superfine), optional (Note 2)) |
| 1814 g | 2kg/ 4 lb Granny Smith apples (, cored, peeled, halved, cut into 1 cm / 1/3" thick slices. (Note 3)) |
| 213 g | 1 cup brown sugar |
| 3 g | 1 tsp ground cinnamon |
| 1 g | 1/2 tsp ground ginger |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg |
| 4 g | 3/4 tsp cooking/kosher salt |
| 5 g | 1 tsp unsalted butter |
| Vanilla ice cream, cream |
Method: 23 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Made this while suffering from a cold, dropped my apples on the ground, probably measured one ingredient in the entire recipe, realised I severely underestimated the amount of granny smiths i needed after I’d already baked the last few I had so I put a couple ” — a cook, 4.0★
“Dear Nagi, thank you for nailing the art of cooking a decent apple pie. Your recipe is perfect! I made it once with a prestigious local South Australian commercial pastry, which allowed me to believe in the apple treatment and learn how to do the lattice, b” — a cook, 5.0★