Brown Butter and Cheddar Apple Pie Recipe on Food52

Name: Brown Butter and Cheddar Apple Pie Recipe on Food52
Ingredients: 3 pounds apples, preferably a combo of Cortland and Honey Crisp, peeled and roughly chopped; 1/3 cup granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar; 4 tablespoons unsalted butter; 2 tablespoons cornstarch; 2 tablespoons water; 2 1/2 cups AP flour; 3 tablespoons semolina flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 12 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes; 2 tablespoons cold lard [Editors\' note: we swapped in butter with success]; 1/2 cup grated sharp yellow cheddar; small glass ice water; 1 egg, beaten for egg wash

"I figured if I was going to pay top dollar for a bag of beautiful local apples at the farmer’s market, I wanted them to be the star of my pie. So, I skipped the (potentially overwhelming) traditional spices and just tossed the apples with sugar and browned butter, not unlike the filling for Nancy Silverton’s apple crumble in her great baking book Pastries from the La Brea Bakery. Next, I turned to Frank Mentesana and Jerome Audureau’s Once Upon a Tart cookbook to riff on their killer tart crust, adding a hand..."

INGREDIENTS

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3 pounds apples, preferably a combo of Cortland and Honey Crisp, peeled and roughly chopped

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1/3 cup granulated sugar

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3 tablespoons dark brown sugar

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4 tablespoons unsalted butter

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2 tablespoons cornstarch

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2 tablespoons water

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2 1/2 cups AP flour

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3 tablespoons semolina flour

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1 teaspoon salt

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12 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes

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2 tablespoons cold lard [Editors\' note: we swapped in butter with success]

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1/2 cup grated sharp yellow cheddar

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small glass ice water

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1 egg, beaten for egg wash

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