homemade irishstyle apple & clove pie

How To Make homemade irishstyle apple & clove pie

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  Step 1
  Pre-heat oven to 190c/375f, grease a 7inch pie tin.
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  Step 2
  Shift flour, cornflour, salt, and icing sugar into a bowl. Using your finger tips rub in butter until mixture resembles bread crumbs .
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  Step 3
  Add enough of milk to form a firm dough. knead slightly to smooth out the dough
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  Step 4
  Roll out half the dough on to a lightly floured surface and use to line the pie tin.
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  Step 5
  Place a sheet of greaseproof paper over pastry that is in the pie tin with baking beans to blind bake for 10 minutes. Once done set aside a prepare the apples.
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  Step 6
  Peel, core, and slice the apples and place into a pan, over medium heat with teaspoon of water. Mix together the ground cloves with the sugar ,add to the pan with apples . Cook the apples until they are soft, remove from heat.
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  Step 7
  Place the cooked apples into the baked pastry shell.
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  Step 8
  Roll out remaining dough, use it to cover the apple pie. Moistening the edges with the egg glaze to seal the lid. With a rolling pin lightly roll it over the edges of apple pie to trim off the ends.
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  The trimmings roll back up again and make a decoration for top of apple pie. I always make an apple with two leafs on either side just how I was shown by my Grandmother and my own Mother.
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  Step 10
  Cut a vent in the top of pie and brush with egg glaze and sprinkle with little caster. Place the apple pie into a pre-heated oven at 190c/375f for 25 minutes, until the pastry is golden.
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  Step 11
  Serve with Custard or ice-cream. My favourite is a dollop of plain old whipped fresh cream .
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  Step 12
  This is one of my apples trees down my back garden, i have three in total ,my husband planted two of them five years ago and an other one three years ago . One for each of my sons ,still have to plant one more for my fourth son he's still only a baby....anyway out of the three apple trees one tree only produce one apple this year compared to last year there was a good few apples on all three tree. This is it, i didn't have the heart to pick it.... PS. any gardeners among us that could tell me , why this has happened am so curious to find out.... :)
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