There are a lot of apple pie recipes, but there always is the one you tend to fall back to, an all time favorite if you will. This one is definitely the one for me, even though I have a few more apple goodness related sentiments.
So... good 20 years back I used to go to this university cafe, with a very presumptions name "Lambada". It had nothing to do with Latin culture, nor with the famous song; actually it could not have been even more far from it, as it was located in a thick walled old Gothic cellar ("The flight of the Valkyr" probably would have been a more suiting name), but they did have a great apple pie (that was about the only thing that was exceptional about that place to be honest). It took me a bit of puzzling to figure out how to make something similar (because, obviously, they do not print recipes on the menu), but after some trial and error, it turned out to be very simple and fail proof recipe.
Need:
4 eggs
200 g of sugar
200 g of sour cream (thick)
2 cups of flour
50 g of butter
2 tea spoons of baking powder
5 apples
The choice of apples matters, I prefer them to be rather dry and sour, some kind of winter variety. I usually do not peel apples if the skin looks all right, just cut them in chunks (after taking out seed pods of course), but if you peel them it is fine too. Further it is fairly simple:
Melt the butter (microwave works fine too), use part of it to butter the sides of the baking form (I use 20x20 cm form);
Mix eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder and left over butter, until it is smooth;
Pour half of the mix into a form, put in the apples, pour the remaining half of the mix on top of them, make sure that no apples are sticking out (because they tend to burn).
Bake for about 40-60 min on 180C, check with a wooden stick if it is ready (stick should come out clean out of the pie.
Take out of the form (carefully, as sometimes it does not want to come out nicely, plops out and breaks), let it cool off and enjoy; or if you feel like you deserve it, add some sugar powder on top or eat it with a good spoon of whipped cream.
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