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Apple Pie


Contest Apple Pie
Apple, Blueberry and Seared Peach Pie

 

Filling    
about 5 medium Empire apples
1/3 cup wild blueberries
1/2 cup sliced peaches
1/4 cup sun-dried cherries
2/3 cup dark rum
1 Tbsp? butter
 ?   dark brown sugar
1 tsp Sumatran cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp Tahitian vanilla
about 2 tsp? corn starch
about 1 Tbsp? tapioca pearls

 

Preheat oven to 425 degrees
 
Cut shortening into mixture of dry ingredients except almonds
Add cold water and blend gently with fingers into two soft dough balls
Refrigerate overnight
 
Mix sliced apples with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and corn starch
Sear peaches in hot, ungreased pan until caramelized on one side
Deglaze pan with rum and butter and reduce until syrupy
Add peach mixture, blueberries and tapioca to apples
 
Roll dough balls onto plastic wrap and transfer one into pie pan
Fill with apple mixture
Top with other crust, seal edges and cut breathing slits
Dot with sliced almonds and paint with egg white