Fast track dino apple pie...

Look closely...and you'll see the dino tracks. Follow in our footsteps below and you'll have a tasty apple pie of your own to sink your teeth into. Make it with Granny Smiths and give some to your granny!

What we used:

Pastry for a 9-inch pie

2/3 cup plus two tablespoons of butter (Ours was soft. Not sure if that's good)
2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
cold water (4-5 tablespoons - or until it sticks in a crumbly lump but isn't slimy)

Contents

1 3/4 cups of sugar
5 cups of peeled, cored and sliced apples* and **

*We always end up using windfalls - maybe this year we'll get organised and pick them off the tree before they fall on the ground, wrap them separately in newspaper and store them somewhere dry and eating apples. One can hope.
**Cooking apples need more sugar than others. To see if you have cooking apples, test one first. Take a bite and if your toes curl up and your mouth starts dribbling: 1) Move away from the worktop or the pastry will stick to your slobber. 2) Add enough sugar when they're cooked to make them nice to eat.

What we did:

Turn on the oven at about 180 degrees.

We made a mistake and started by peeling and slicing the apples up first.

They quickly go brown.

So instead...

Start by rounding up all the other ingredients and making the pastry first.

Track down the salt - our little salt bowl is always going missing. Jake and I bought Antlantic sea salt because it looks like sand. We thought we could trick people but no one wants to eat sand - not even us - so we're using it in cooking where it doesn't show :o)

Make the pastry by cutting bits of butter
into the flour and salt.

Just a teaspoon of salt.

We seem to be cutting the butter into the flour with a fork.
That's creative.

Flour a clean worktop and roll out half the pastry until it's a bit bigger than the pie dish. 

We added a little water and brought our apples to the boil
(mainly to stop them going any browner while we fiddled about). 

Some people just add them to the pie raw.

Cut some tracks from the offcuts.

Pop on the lid and trim off the extra. A real pie dish with a flat edge is better because you can stick the edges together better and use  the four tynes of a fork press side by side in a stripey pattern all round the pie crust. 

Beat an egg...

...to stick the footprints on with and brush over the top.

Bake in the oven until it is a nice golden brown 30-40 minutes or a bit more
if your apples are raw, sprinkle with icing sugar
 and serve with custard or cream.

Deliciousaurus!!!!!!!